to hone
Examples
Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.
You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.
It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.
When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.
A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.