Sample Sentences forburnish (editor-reviewed)
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The jeweler carefully burnished the silver bracelet until it gleamed.burnished = polished
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The candidate worked hard to burnish her public image before the election.burnish = improve reputation
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The knight’s armor was so well burnished that it shone brightly in the sunlight.burnished = polished
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Standing beside its burnished bronze doors, (source)burnished = polished and shiny
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the old man leaned over the stern and lifted the burnished gold fish with its purple spots over the stem. (source)burnished = shiny and smooth looking
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A big round moon, slowly deepening from her pallid luster into burnished silver, hung over the Haunted Wood; the air was full of sweet summer sounds—sleepy birds twittering, freakish breezes, faraway voices and laughter. (source)
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My brother's face was swollen and burnished as a new penny. (source)burnished = shiny
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His lack of coat, top hat, scarf, or gloves is an intentional ploy to burnish his athletic image.† (source)
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His broad clear brow in sunlight glow'd; On burnish'd hooves his war-horse trode; From underneath his helmet flow'd His coal-black curls as on he rode, As he rode down to Camelot.† (source)
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For one, the white guys are more physical and affectionate toward one another than he's used to seeing among the black kids from high school, who were so wrapped up with burnishing their hard exteriors.† (source)
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Frozen rime lusters the grass; the sun, round as an orange and orange as hot-weather moons, balances on the horizon, burnishes the silvered winter woods.† (source)
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There was a gleam of rubbed wood and burnished pewter.† (source)
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I sensed her weakness and spent most of class Coming up with creative ways to burnish my status as class clown.† (source)
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You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish'd with gold!† (source)
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I stood at the window to admire the sunlight slanting over the golf course, and burnishing the bare trees on the distant hills.† (source)
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At the mouth of the inlet, the massive shape of the turtle's shell glinted like a burnished coin.† (source)
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