Sample Sentences for
burnish
(editor-reviewed)

Show 3 more sentences
  • •
    The knight’s armor was so well burnished that it shone brightly in the sunlight.
    burnished = polished
  • •
    Standing beside its burnished bronze doors,  (source)
    burnished = polished and shiny
  • •
    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
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 5 word variations
  • •
    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)
    burnished = shiny and smooth looking
  • •
    I sensed her weakness and spent most of class Coming up with creative ways to burnish my status as class clown.†  (source)
  • •
    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)
  • •
    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)
  • •
    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)
  • •
    My brother's face was swollen and burnished as a new penny.  (source)
    burnished = shiny
  • •
    It's a glorious evening, warm but not too close, the sun starting its lazy descent, shadows lengthening and the light just beginning to burnish the trees with gold.†  (source)
  • •
    You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish'd with gold!†  (source)
  • •
    I stood at the window to admire the sunlight slanting over the golf course, and burnishing the bare trees on the distant hills.†  (source)
  • •
    There was a gleam of rubbed wood and burnished pewter.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)