Strop example sentences

"Strop" Example Sentences

1. He was in a foul strop all morning.
2. The spoiled child threw a temper strop over not getting his way.
3. Susan was in a sewing strop and wouldn't come out of her room.
4. In a bad strop, he slammed his fist against the wall.
5. She sat sulking in a vicious strop until her parents apologized.
6. He was in a strop after he lost the football match.
7. Go sit in your room until you get out of this strop, young man!
8. I can't reason with him when he's in a strop like this.
9. Father was always in an irascible strop on Sunday afternoons.
10. John was in such a strop that no one could talk any sense into him.
11. When Brian's in one of his stroppy moods, it's best to leave him alone.
12. Don't mind him, he's just in a strop because he didn't get his way.
13. I could hear him stomping around in a temper strop upstairs.
14. He sharpened the blade of his scythe with quick, angry motions while in a strop.
15. The antique barber's razor needed a leather strop to keep the edge sharp.
16. He hung up his leather strop and closed the cabinet full of tonics and ointments.
17. The barber honed his blade with steady strokes on the hanging leather strop.
18. The whetstone and leather strop kept the scythe blade sharp and functional.
19. After using the stone, he ran the blade over the leather strop one last time.
20. The serial killer sharpened his razor blade on an old, worn leather strop.
21. They kept the knives in the kitchen sharpened using a sharpening steel and strop.
22. He hung up his razor and strop and left the barbershop for the day.
23. The cobbler used a leather strop to polish the shoe heels after applying heel taps.
24. The gardener's tools had leather straps for strops to keep blades sharp for cutting.
25. Using the honing steel and strop, he sharpened the mower's blades before cutting grass.
26. She polished her jewelry using a cleaning cloth and fine metal strop.
27. After using the whetstone, the scout ran his knife blade across the leather strop.
28. The butcher hung up his sharpening steel and leather strop on the wall of his stall.
29. I sharpen my pencils using the strop on the side of my pencil sharpener.
30. The workshop was full of sharpening stones, steels and strops for keeping blades sharp.
31. The billhook needed to be sharpened on a grindstone and then stropped frequently.
32. He always kept his ax razor sharp by using an oilstone and leather strop regularly.
33. The craftsman stropped his chisels on a leather belt to ensure clean, sharp edges.
34. The swordsmith spent hours honing the blade and stropping the edges on coarse linen.
35. Stropping the blades back flat on the abrasive leather keeps the edge from rolling over.
36. He ran his knife blade lightly over the leather belt strop after sharpening it.
37. Leather strops commonly contain abrasive compounds to increase their sharpening power.
38. Often a razor or knife edge is finished by stropping on a smooth surface like wood or cork.
39. After some use, knives need to be resharpened and then stropped regularly.
40. The samurai sword edge was kept razor sharp through sharpening and frequent stropping.
41. She stropped her lipstick on a tissue before applying it for her big performance.
42. Using a wire brush and metal strop, he cleaned the rust off the old set of tools.
43. The bladesmith spent endless hours grinding and stropping his hand-forged steel blades.
44. The blacksmith hung his whetstone and leather strop on the wall of his smithy.
45. The surgeon stropped his scalpel with practiced precision before beginning the incision.
46. Soldiers are taught to always keep their combat knives sharp and regularly stropped.
47. An old leather belt can make an excellent improvised strop for honing blade edges.
48. The surgeon stropped the blade of his scalpel against the palm of his hand before surgery.
49. He stropped his hunting knife into thin slices before placing them on the focaccia bread.
50. The farmer stropped her long scythe against the thick leather belt wrapped around her waist.
51. She stropped her skates across the rough stone surface to sharpen the blade edges.
52. The hunter stropped his hunting knife blade against a strip of leather hanging from his belt.
53. The assassin stropped his dagger on the whetstone in his pocket before launching the attack.
54. The dry field stone served as a convenient whetstone and strop for sharpening scythe blades.
55. The artisan's tools lined the wall - scouring pads, abrasive stones, rubbing cloths and strops.
56. After using the sharpening stone, the chef stropped his kitchen knife on a leather strip.
57. Stropping the blade helps refine and deburrs the newly sharpened edge.
58. I stropped my nails on my shirt before applying the coat of polish.
59. The artisan used many types of abrasives and strops to shape and hone her metallic creations.
60. The barber stropped his razor on the smooth leather strip hanging from the chair.