POLISH in a Sentence
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109 example sentences for POLISH, such as:
1. He polished off the whole pie.
2. Apply polish with a soft brush.
3. Use acetone to remove nail polish.
4. Elbow grease gives the best polish.
5. Marble can be polished to a high gloss.
2. Apply polish with a soft brush.
3. Use acetone to remove nail polish.
4. Elbow grease gives the best polish.
5. Marble can be polished to a high gloss.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of POLISH
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polish
v. bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
n. a preparation used in polishing
Classic Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
1 Three days' reddish beard fringed his jaws and every two or three minutes a mist gathered on his glasses so that he had to take them off and polish them with his pocket-handkerchief.
2 Going down the stairs his glasses became so dimmed with moisture that he had to take them off and polish them.
3 At this Farrington told the boys to polish off that and have another.
4 He said it had been his experience that when women gave surprise parties they usually gave them on the very nights men had decided to polish and clean all the guns in the house.
5 If the air of Munro was more commanding and manly, it wanted both the ease and insinuating polish of that of the Frenchman.
6 She had to wash the cups every morning, and polish up the old-fashioned spoons, the fat silver teapot, and the glasses till they shone.
7 You see, never has it fallen to my lot to acquire the brilliant polish which is, so to speak, manifest in your every movement.
8 It was a new carriage, shiny with varnish, and the harness was new too, with bits of polished brass here and there.
9 Usually, the more he drank, the more polished became his manners.
10 He was not drinking as he had formerly, becoming increasingly more polished and biting as the liquor took hold of him, saying amusing, malicious things that made her laugh in spite of herself.
11 Rosedale still stood before her in an expectant attitude, and she continued to face him in silence, her glance just level with his polished baldness.
12 It was as brilliantly polished as the one below, but here at least she could burn a few papers with less risk of incurring her aunt's disapproval.
13 His black shoes were blunt and not well polished.
14 The high light was a polished copper pot filled with primroses.
15 Along the drive below her swept barouches, with a mechanical tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, and great cars with polished black hoods and engines quiet as the sigh of an old man.
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 It took a considerable amount of polish and elbow grease before the brass shone like new.
2 Apply polish with a soft brush.
3 By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.
4 Elbow grease gives the best polish.
5 This car polish is an effective shield against rust.
6 The house smelt of cedar wood and fresh polish.
7 With this polish you can give a good high gloss to the wood.
8 Use acetone to remove nail polish.
9 These boys polish their piano techniques for years.
10 The difference between putting down a first draft and getting to the final polish is amazing.
11 He polished off the whole pie.
12 Manilow gave the slick, polished performance that we've come to expect.
13 When I was little I used to like sliding on the polished floor in my socks.
14 Marble can be polished to a high gloss.
15 He rough-hewed a statue out of a block of jade rapidly but then polished it slowly over a long period.