Object

• skill: Camps offer a chance to hone skills in horse riding, or football, or event to study for exams.

• ability: Each event needs its own individual skills, and a practice option gives the chance to hone abilities before joining the competition proper.

• sound: They spent the next few years honing an atmospheric rock sound in their native Toronto and the dynamic was great.

Modifying Another Word

• really: I did some DJ-ing in my spare time, but didn't have enough time to practice and really hone my skills.

Subject

• experience: That was a healthy dose of realism ( honed by bitter experience?

Followed by an intransitive particle

• up: Hone up on some real footie trivia to bore or dazzle your friends.

Modifying Another Word

• finely: Watching the world around you isn't a finely honed skill; it's more like flicking on a light switch.

• carefully: By any standards, it's an exhausting program of races that would challenge the most carefully honed athlete.

• well: Well honed account management skills which lead to repeat contracts.

• certainly: Over the years lenders have certainly honed their ability to charge for PPI.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• down: The slabs have honed down to a mellow soft color.

Preposition: by

• year: Its public order tactics honed by years of experience are the envy of the world.

• experience: That was a healthy dose of realism ( honed by bitter experience?