furbish

Example Sentences

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When Andrew Friedman arrived in Los Angeles, he hoped to furbish a player-development machine that hummed like the one in St. Louis.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2016

Yet it seems to be more important to furbish large roadside coffee pots,” McCain said.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2011

And Canada's CCF socialists, although they still had their leader, Schoolmasterish Major J. Coldwell, had already called a national convention Aug. 19 to furbish up a new platform.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Nova-Park Elys�es, which sits on the site of the century-old Paris-Match building and retains its fa�ades, cost about $45 million to furbish and furnish.

From Time Magazine Archive

She would have Sophie to look over all her “toilettes,” as she called frocks; to furbish up any that were “passées,” and to air and arrange the new.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë