polish

Example Sentences

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The aesthetic favors deliberate roughness and mistakes over a sterile, polished sheen.

From Los Angeles Times

Left with no idea how to wrap itself up, “Undertone” throws every one of those horror tropes under a hydraulic press, shoving them together, hoping that the result will be prettier than just polished garbage.

From Salon

And yet how many Americans haven’t stared down a hardwood alley with murderous intent, preparing to unload a polished missile against 10 arrogant pins?

From The Wall Street Journal

At one point, for example, she reads a passage in which a woman polishes silver “until it gleamed.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Margaret O’Brien’s miniature “juvenile” Oscar for “Meet Me in St. Louis” was taken by a housekeeper who offered to polish it but never returned.

From Los Angeles Times