burnish

How To Use burnish In A Sentence

• The post added that it hardly burnished his image. Times, Sunday Times
• As the machine lifted, it caught the sun above the forest margins, and burnished the fair hair falling carelessly over her forehead. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
• Her rust red hair fell in a cascade of ringlets that were burnished gold by the kiss of the sun.
• Here begins the manzanita, adjusting its tortuous stiff stems to the sharp waste of boulders, its pale olive leaves twisting edgewise to the sleek, ruddy, chestnut stems; begins also the meadowsweet, burnished laurel, and the million unregarded trumpets of the coral - red pentstemon. The Land of Little Rain
• We don't use force just to burnish our reputation or to enhance our credibility.
• The bronze statue of Sir David has already been cast, and is now been giving its final burnishing.
• But it also puts downward pressure on domestic inflation, strengthens consumption and burnishes the yuan's case for becoming a more global currency—something Chinese officials see as key to reducing Beijing's dependence on the U.S. dollar. China Central Bank Sets Yuan Post at Record
• By the time Israel Zangwill's play of that name was published in 1908, the ‘melting pot’ had acquired all the burnish of an American ideal.
• He burnished JFK's reputation as a great president. Times, Sunday Times
• It was not calculation but humility - together with his understanding that it is preferable not to rust unburnished but to shine in use - that gave him another lease on life.