polished
Example Sentences
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“When you’re an analyst or an associate, you want to look clean, sharp and polished, but conspicuous branding should be avoided.”
I polished the runners and went over the gang line and all of its fastenings.
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Elegant fountains dotted the property, looped and connected by polished concrete walkways edged with well-manicured landscaping that gave a historic university feel to an otherwise state-of-the-art facility.
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Neither the rough underside nor the polished top had a single scratch.
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The ingots are cut into wafers with a wire saw, which move through multiple machines to be polished, tested and boxed up so they can be sent to the next stage of the supply chain.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.