tarnish

How to use tarnish in a sentence

If he breathed, it was only that feeble respiration which could scarcely tarnish the surface of a mirror.

It is easy to understand that gold and silver thread of this pure description, unlike tinsel finery, it is not liable to tarnish.

The aluminum utensils will be always shining, for the material of which they are made will not tarnish.

Prizes are offered at Lyons for the best mode of manufacturing gold and silver thread that will not tarnish.

He has deposited it safely, where misfortune can not tarnish it, where malice can not blast it.

Oh, will you for a caprice forego the satisfaction of doing a noble deed, and tarnish with blood the annals of a beneficent reign?

Winter snow and spring thaw had done no harm to the gold which could not rust nor to the pearls which could not tarnish.

WOLF BREEDJACKSON GREGORY

It's above all we can do to tarnish it with our little prejudices.

It would not oxidise in the air; gallium does not tarnish upon exposure to the air.

Gold does not tarnish, and good names do not soil easily, though herein custom has something to do with the affair.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985