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.
Recording superstar Beyonce Knowles is building a bankable resume for herself as an actress with Sony Screen Gems 'Obsessed as the latest title burnishing her resume. /Film
As the painting emerges from the alternate scumbling and glazing of the surface, Gobhai marks in his definitive lines, drawing and sometimes incising them with a burnishing tool.
A burnished finish softens the outlines and underscores the sculpted story. Times, Sunday Times
This year's object of desire is a foot-long black leather carpet bag with worked wooden handles or a hand-held bucket bag with burnished bronze studs.
A burnished finish softens the outlines and underscores the sculpted story. Times, Sunday Times
Autumn has a light touch here: a burgundy fringe on the roadside, gold and blush in haptic patches on the tree crowns, like the burnish on a pear. Champagne : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Redness lights the interior of the submersible; the glow from dials and video screens reflects softly off the burnished titanium hull.
It's fitting, since Mickelson, 34, has done more than any other golfer to burnish his image as a family guy - and it's bringing in the bucks.
The light from the gasolier burnished the keen blade. Once An Angel
They have thought constantly about each other, but will the real person live up to the idealized image that was burnished into their minds for ten years?
The natives used to bury these bronze manillas and after being in the ground for quite a long time they would quickly burnish up again.
These techniques are used to degrease metal, to provide protection for substrates, and for deburring, surface smoothing and polishing, ball burnishing, cleaning, and pickling or descaling.
It does nothing to burnish the city's proud heritage as the birthplace of American freedoms.
The cool elegance of the shapes, such as stemmed goblets, is matched by the smooth silvery-grey burnished surfaces.
‘Look for coatings with a high degree of burnish resistance to stand up to routine cleaning,’ says Rafie.
The telltale blue of their family eyes was gone, and in its place was a deep burnished gold.
Water gilding allows the object to be burnished to achieve a polished, shining surface.
Ulysses cannot abide the idleness of age and continues to reflect: "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! Peter Davis: Milestone or Millstone?
It was the fourth consecutive last-place finish for LaGuardia, a congested airport in the borough of Queens which is plagued by delays but hopes to burnish its image with new high-profile restaurants.
The post added that it hardly burnished his image. Times, Sunday Times
Way at the front end of the house red light came pouring through the tunnel and showed the lake burnished and menacing.
The burnished gold skyscape suggests a hero watched by divinity and driven by fate. Times, Sunday Times
As long as people have a good time, as long as the community is burnished with an extra polishing of fellow feeling, an event is successful, right?
On Sundays both locations have lechon - the whole roasted suckling pig that's a staple at Filipino galas - with spoon-tender flesh and crisp, burnished skin.
With these first impressions, I work back into the plate with a scraper, burnisher and emery paper to enhance the lights and accent the motif.
His recollections are more striking for being so understated and unburnished. Times, Sunday Times
And then as regarded fashion, it might perhaps not be beyond the power of a Mrs. Proudie to regild the word with a newly burnished gilding. Framley Parsonage
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers — a living prismatic gem that changes its colour with every change of position — how in turning it catches the sunshine on its burnished neck and gorges plumes — green and gold and flame-coloured, the beams changing to visible flakes as they fall, dissolving into nothing, to be succeeded by others and yet others? Green Mansions
In vain the Communists tried to burnish their image, formally abandoning the doctrine of the dictatorship of the proletariat at their twenty-second party congress in February 1976.
But if the threats and saber-rattling are going to be effective, Chamillionaire has to take his burnished, easy flow and start putting some specifics in it.
The still-evolving pieces of Victorian Village's revitalization all build on the idea of burnishing that history. The Memphis Daily News
His technique was mezzotint, the hybrid drypoint technique in which a texture is applied to a prepared etching plate, and the image is painstakingly burnished in.
It is well burnished and/or polished and, based on its core colors, had been incompletely oxidized during its firing.
When dry, the gold is burnished with a hooked or rounded tool called a burnisher.
The sky in the east gleams like burnished brass gilding the wavelets on Phoenix Bay.
Picture the scene: the late afternoon sun is burnishing the craggy Cornish cliffs.
She wiped them off and underneath the furry tendrils of dust, the burnish of the old polish still gleamed.
Only this burnished clayware retained its painting when it was dug up from burial grounds centuries later. Mexico's extraordinary arts and crafts
With what splendid rigidity the escorts 'burnished lines walled in its oncome. Kincaid's Battery
Pregnancy has the further effect of burnishing Demi's biography: It makes her hardscrabble childhood seem more poignant.
The mature leaves are a glossy shade of mid-green and display a burnished bronze central midrib. Times, Sunday Times
The inventory of 1700 describes 'its wooden frame gilded with unburnished gold'.
Mirrors reflect burnished silver candelabras, enhancing the pleasure of jaded diners who've tasted it all.
Their armor was burnished bright red, and black capes swung over the shoulders and flapped in the light breeze.
While the Democrats pummel each other John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, swans around the country burnishing his reputation.
The floor was spotless; the grate and fire - irons were burnished bright.
Grasso's hardscrabble early life has, if anything, burnished his reputation on the trading floor - a blue-collar stronghold where college degrees are strictly optional.
The king of such devices is the divine Chateau Laguiole cleaver, which is available from Terroirs from around £80 in a variety of burnished woods including pistachio and olive wood.
The box was fashioned of antique burnished rosewood, with brass cylinders and myriad bells all working in perfectly refined unison.
Gold's reputation as a safe haven burnishes its allure, especially when stocks and bonds look unstable, as they do now. Gold Gets New Converts, Even as Metal's Price Grows More Precious
On shelves and bookcases around the flat I could see antique spanners, old sextants, shiny brass things, burnished steel telescopes.
But the Golden Gate Bridge, which opened to pedestrians 70 years ago today -- at 6 a.m. on May 27, 1937 -- is more than an international icon in burnished red. Archive 2007-05-27
‘Verily, then, I may enter,’ said Kai, ‘for there is no better burnisher of swords than I.’ The Lilac Fairy Book
Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, the authors wrote, considered Hillary an icy prima donna; her husband (who after exiting the White House often called Daschle, imploring him for help in burnishing his legacy) a narcissist on an epic scale; the dynamic between the couple, bizarre; their treatment of their friends, unforgivably manipulative and disloyal. In 'Game Change,' the Clinton profile gets more complex
But we have trouble seeing them for what they really are because of the images burnished into our consciousness by movie-makers.
By opening the 9/11/11 show with the hard-won resolve of "Runaway," a song built around a promise not to run from the realities of relationship, and by allowing that promise to stay studded with more questions than answers, the band burnishes the louche hypotheses of its fine second album, Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers, into a rocky respectability. S.X. Rosenstock: The National at the Hollywood Bowl
Anxious for a return on the investment and for results that may burnish the image of its performance, the Government has advertised an impressive list of the airship's capabilities.
Page view page image: where dwelt priests and nobles, illumined the propyla of the temples, burnished the lakes, gilded the obelisks, and flooded the whole City of the Sun with magnificence; — for there is a splendor and glory in the sunshine of Egypt unknown in other lands, the result of the purity of the crystalline atmosphere. The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
During the autumn, the foliage of tricolour sage and ajuga becomes burnished with bronze, plum, and garnet.
When dry, the gold is burnished with a hooked or rounded tool called a burnisher.
Autumnal shades abound, burnished orange; mauve; burnt umber; ochre; sage green and damson, preferably all in the one outfit.
His flesh was a burnished umber, and he had several days ' growth of beard, which was even darker than his skin. GALILEE
Forest entomologists call this inch-and-a-half-long insect, which has starburst spots on burnished black wings, potentially the worst ecological disaster North American forests have ever seen.
If Islay's signature metal is the burnished copper of whisky stills, it gave place last weekend to the brassy sheen or sandblasted seriousness of the saxophone.
The narrow and steep stone steps in the pagoda have been burnished and made very smooth.
In northern European paintings matt, unburnished gilding is also found and contracts may specify which areas are to be burnished and which are to be matt.
It consists of abutting panels of blue and red acrylic applied in an almost burnished density that recalls encaustic.
Bonds hasn't exactly burnished his image, either.
The heat burnishes the surface, creating a look different from a wet polish.
You've got to rub the bird with butter, baste it with pan juices occasionally and rotate it in the pan to make the skin burnish up just so.
Finally, burnishing and polishing of the wood is carried out with burnishers and abrasives of varying texture and refinement.
The post added that it hardly burnished his image. Times, Sunday Times
I rather think of Ted Kennedy, working phones from his sickbed to garner support for his lifelong cause of healthcare for all Americans, as scorning to rust unburnished. Archive 2009-08-23
But the event is burnishing Mr. Perry's image among prominent religious conservatives. Evangelicals Urge Perry to Enter Race
Sounds like he's more interested in burnishing his own image.
Her long dark hair brushed like burnished jet.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Well, he was concerned with burnishing his image, the work that he has done over the last seven years, and, as you say, he feels he's left the intelligence community much stronger than he found it.
He missed no opportunity to burnish his image.
Sunlight tracked a path of sparkling white highlights toward the skyline, a light as harsh as if it were reflecting off burnished metal.
The parts of the plate that are too light are made darker by rubbing down the surface of the plate with a tool called the burnisher. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
The Last Secret burnishes Mary McGarry Morris's reputation as one of our most prodigiously gifted writers. The Last Secret: Summary and book reviews of The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris.
The form of his grey Stetson had lost its definition, and the burnished highlights of his dark eyes were conspicuously absent. DANSVILLE
So it definitely -- it just frees her up to -- to not only enhance her name recognition, which is already really high, but also to kind of burnish her brand, because she is still so much a figure that, you know, conservatives like and what she needs to do now, clearly, is become more of an independent -- a figure that Independents can like. CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2009
His gift is to turn unburnished material into observational gold. Times, Sunday Times
Yet another chance to retire, reputation burnished, was passed up. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
His voice may not be as oaken as Richard Burton's was, or as burnished as John Gielgud's, but it's a beautifully modulated instrument with its own somber music. Soderbergh Goes 'Haywire' With a Fast, Stylish Thriller
Then the blazing eye swept onward across the burnished domes and graceful minarets, down into court and park and garden to pause at last upon the ersite bench and the girl standing there beside it, her face upturned full toward the flier. Thuvia, Maid of Mars
Without doubt, the main burnished piece is the pitcher which holds refreshing drinking water. The artesanias of Michoacan - an introduction
But he intended not merely to burnish that bulldog image, but to vindicate a much grander and somewhat shakier claim to being the architect of total victory over Nazi Germany.
Maybe the cloud of smoke I puff through my burnished pipe courtesy of my luxurious Ivy League stipend is clouding my vision. Megan Doherty: My Walk With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man
And the burnished vintage settings in South Philadelphia look anything but depressed.
There also are burnished metallics and grass cloths in boldly scaled weaves.
Midbite into an ostrich burger at lunch one day, I watched the vanguard of an elephant herd emerge onto the lagoon shore, about 100 yards away, and each evening I trained my binoculars on the red lechwe gathered in the shallows, their russet coats burnished by the sun's slanting rays. Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels
The inside of the pot could also be burnished with a smooth pebble or bone to smear the clay particles over each other producing a more watertight vessel.
His flesh was a burnished umber, and he had several days ' growth of beard, which was even darker than his skin. GALILEE
In her hand she held a single leaf, burnished gold by the autumnal winds.
His hallmark full, burnished tone and his strong technique have developed into something masterly.
The more you yearn to launch a war, the more you must strive to burnish your image as someone who craves peace.
These blades will not leave any burnish marks on a new floor and are suitable for both floating and finishing.
It provides operators a cost-effective way to use a combination blade to hard finish concrete floors without any burnish marks.
It sat on a George Nakashima sidetable, a rough-hewn slab of walnut burnished to a sheen. Chameleon
His darkly burnished sound in the Andante sostenuto was all warmth and violinistic molten lava.
He was of no more than middle years, though snow-white streaks shone like burnished silver in his thick brown hair and neatly trimmed beard.
Its moisture helped preserve the ivory of the chryselephantine colossus, though temple priests also burnished it with more oil daily. See Delphi and Die
The motifs lie upon luminous fields of pale color that shift between shades of rose and burnished gold.
The Badgers also burnished their reputation as a giant-killer. Big Ten Conference
He burnished JFK's reputation as a great president. Times, Sunday Times
That meant paring away layers of linoleum and orange carpeting, burnishing hardwood floors, sandblasting some beams, oiling knotty pine walls, and creating window coverings that didn't compete with the view.
Tennyson was right, to rust unburnished was inconceivably dull. The Forgotten Garden
The artist's palette encompasses earthy, weather worn colours, rich burnished crimsons and flashes of red.
For instance, a manufacturer may recommend that its floor covering be maintained with a high-speed burnisher.
The box was fashioned of antique burnished rosewood, with brass cylinders and myriad bells all working in perfectly refined unison.
Now will die hard helmet, bedight with gold, be deprived of its adornments; they sleep who should burnish the battle-masks. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
Inside the word "burnish," by a neat linguistic accident, lies the word "burn" — the copper shines because of the burning heat of the sun, so to speak. Emperor of Nostalgia
It's about people burnishing and polishing their self-images and their conceptions of how they're regarded by their fellow Man.
The burnish on her medal had begun to fade, and Gunnell had missed her story.
The hall was bedight with evergreen boughs, weavings, burnished metal, Roman glass. Time Patrolman
I hereby swear to keep your name burnished bright before all men, and to carry on your cause until the end of my days," she said. Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
Distinctive crystal clastic rock enchases craft every design likes an artwork, aglimmer glamour burnish, popular feeling chord is touched like diamond.
Scraper burnisher to be firmly pressed on the wide face during burnishing. 2. Types and Mode of Action of Smoothing and Sanding Tools
The Last Secret burnishes Mary McGarry Morriss reputation as one of our most prodigously gifted writers. BookBrowse Previews April Books
There's nothing like a little golden statuette on the mantelpiece to burnish a fragile ego.
To achieve the reflective gleam of solid gold which is the aim of water gilding it needs to be burnished by rubbing the surface with a burnisher, usually a hard polished stone such as haematite or agate mounted in a wooden handle.
The gold leaf is laid on the still wet edge, and when slightly dry is covered with a sheet of paper and rubbed down with a burnisher, and when entirely dry is burnished again with a smooth piece of agate or bloodstone. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
The stage is mostly empty, overhung by a huge burnished metallic doughnut. Times, Sunday Times
For nearly 30 years Olive Cox burnished the brass and kept St Peter's Church in Little Cheverell spick and span.
It's about people burnishing and polishing their self-images and their conceptions of how they're regarded by their fellow Man.
The principal issue for the mystery plays was the representation of the divine, which conventionally was signified by a burnished gold mask in contradistinction to the blackening of the devil.
It is well burnished only on the exterior body, which is decorated with a series of engraved ticked circles and semicircles.
The legislative victory also burnished Putin's credentials as an economic reformer.
Tadeusz reached inside his jacket and pulled out a burnished pewter hip flask. THE LAST TEMPTATION
They were fired under reduced oxygen conditions, tempered exclusively with grog, and burnished and/or polished on the exterior vessel body and neck.
All the valve and operating fittings for the above locos were completed and burnished by hand at Wolverton Works Brass Shop.
In ordinary kitchens of all periods, cooking pots were made of unglazed Nile clay, sometimes with a burnished slip coating.
Windshield bag collects burnishing dust for indoor air quality and restrains dust scatter.
To the degree that the image is ‘extracted’ from its background by means of burnishing, the process is akin to mezzotinting.
a burnished brass knocker
Chief Executive Donald Tsang is pushing to spend billions of dollars on costly and unpopular investments aimed at burnishing Hong Kong's image as part of China's rise, such as high-speed rail and hosting the Asian Games. Contempt for Hong Kong Law
It was unburnished gray - aluminum or magnesium, by its light weight - and smoothly streamlined.
- Burnishing of the ridge by moving the scraper burnisher along the longitudinal narrow faces and pressing it towards the wide face. 2. Types and Mode of Action of Smoothing and Sanding Tools
There was a creature of burnished shadow in her, dark and sleek and protean. SACRAMENT
Nice to see a potential American leader able to once again burnish America’s image abroad. — Obama’s High-Powered Ride to the Airport - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Amid the tears, there are justifications, counter-arguments, pleadings, denials, arguments, old ground retrodden, infidelities relived, memories burnished and then sullied - but there are definitely tears.
Mr. Lane, who started out in journalism helping compile Forbes magazine's billionaire scorecards, is an ingenuous narrator who likes to remind the reader that he was essentially a schlump living in a fourth-floor walkup while his glossies burnished the egos and tweaked the appetites of Wall Street's new wildcatters. Published and Perished
It also bought car-freak Rivera the simultaneous opportunities to burnish business ties and score a speed fix for himself.
But if the threats and saber-rattling are going to be effective, Chamillionaire has to take his burnished, easy flow and start putting some specifics in it.
Forest entomologists call this inch-and-a-half-long insect with starburst spots on burnished black wings potentially the worst ecological disaster North American forests have ever seen.
Standing in a central and open place it was not difficult to discover, a well-burnished brass doorplate bearing their names prominently. Life's Little Ironies
I like to leave it in the oven for an extra couple of minutes to encourage a caramelisation to occur on the surface of the pie, lending a burnished shade that contrasts with the rich and bright orange of the pie filling. Archive 2008-06-01
Nymphs and satyrs in Florentine bronze smirked and capered in the recesses of the pale gray wall, relieved by mouldings and medallions in unburnished gold.
The inside of the elevator had burnished steel paneling, and the buttons were made of plastic.
When dry, the gold is burnished with a hooked or rounded tool called a burnisher.
the sky was a burnished aestival blue
The enormous burnished pipes of the organ, lit from below, rose like architecture behind the musicians.
Ann Coulter is jealous of the attention Rush Limbaugh has been getting since making his comment about the Obama administration wanting to exploit the Haitian tragedy to "burnish" his credentials with the black community. Raw Story
Her body, carved and faceted with all of the concentrated vigor of an Expressionist woodcut and burnished a brick red, gives way to a thick plait of wiry gray hair.
The sky in the east gleams like burnished brass gilding the wavelets on Phoenix Bay.
Typically pierced handles and covers were decorated with different shades of matte or burnished gold, or with bronze luster.
After the plane arrives, we fly over the watery green plain, skimming above rivers of burnished silver and snowy flocks of tundra swan.
Burnished gold wallpaper, hand-made from silk and hessian, lines the walls on which are hung oil portraits of distinguished grand masters, including one by Raeburn.
So, very clearly in the political sense, given that this was during an election year and part of an effort to kind of burnish up his foreign policy credentials, it was interesting to me that he spent so much time in Israel, that he did make that statement in Sderot, which is one of the reasons that Israel is now in the Gaza is to stop those incoming missiles. CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2009
He burnished JFK's reputation as a great president. Times, Sunday Times
Its purpose is to provide a smooth, almost slippery, surface for later burnishing, but the red and yellow boles also enrich the colour of the gilding.
I shall have them torn out: I will have this elevator refurbished, antiqued: done in burnished gold and red velvet. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
Verdana concealed a smile, and crashed her mailed fist on the burnished breastplate of her armour.
Beyond them a westering sun burnishes the sea, and blue hills process along every horizon. Country diary: Garndolbenmaen
This entirely predictable denouement arrives when, as a result of Tony Blair carefully burnishing his credentials for the job of President of the EU, the Danegeld we pay to the EU for the non-existent benefit of being a member is eye-wateringly ratcheted upwards by 68% in two years. To Nobody's Surprise
At pains to burnish its status as a "developing country", China has also come under pressure from poorer nations who see their interests diverging from the Asian giant with which they have been long been aligned in the G-77. Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
A burnished finish softens the outlines and underscores the sculpted story. Times, Sunday Times
And beyond the glitter of opulence, it must also glow with the burnish of remembrance, light up with the luster of nostalgia.
Carefully unwrapping it, she found the hint of dull gold and burnished it on her shirt, the small ruby at the end of the key twinkling in the yellow sunlight.
The crisp, burnished cheese and breadcrumb gratinee topping is in perfect contrast to what lies below. Times, Sunday Times
Her hair shone like burnished copper.
Yet another chance to retire, reputation burnished, was passed up. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
She was a retired burnisher at Bruce Fox in New Albany. Knits and Notes
This vessel also has an evened rim and a rounded lip, and is burnished on both interior and exterior surfaces.
With these first impressions, I work back into the plate with a scraper, burnisher and emery paper to enhance the lights and accent the motif.
And these are just two players in a burgeoning industry aimed at burnishing the credentials of the college-bound. The Do-Good Zeal of the College Bound
Declan, a young Irishman, noticeable for his startlingly burnished red hair, on the run from the law, and Lin, one of a small Chinese party searching for gold, are pitchforked into a macrocosm of greed, discomfort and ruthlessness.
RadioShack would "burnish" its brand, add more private-label programs, and continue to build its wireless business under a new go-to-market strategy that was shared with investors during a rare earnings call by chairman/CEO Julian Day. TWICE - Digital Imaging News
The post added that it hardly burnished his image. Times, Sunday Times
I could not relate the time now but my original gold case and lettering regained its lustre from being burnished on a sweetly scented sleeve.
In a mezzotint, a serrated tool is used to roughen areas that will retain ink to be printed, while areas to remain white are burnished and scraped smooth so that ink can be wiped away.
Using the rib burnisher with the spongy side down, she picked up a dab of the cooled red fat, and rubbed the mixture into the prepared bison skin, pressing hard as she held the hide in her hand. The Mammoth Hunters
The unburnished female voice in the ad is effective. Election Central Saturday Roundup
Ehrlich burnishes his family values cred, giving O'Malley credit for being a public figure: This is tough, this is not easy. Ehrlich vs. O'Malley -- Maryland governor debate liveblog
His consequent withdrawal into reclusion in the mid-1990s only had the effect of burnishing his legend. Times, Sunday Times
- Burnishing of the wide faces by means of a scraper burnisher humidified with oil until there is no ridge anymore. 2. Types and Mode of Action of Smoothing and Sanding Tools
It doesn't entirely surprise me that in the 1990s when we were fat and happy and we thought that the threat to the administration had diminished, the Soviet Union had disappeared that we just didn't spend our time kind of burnishing the failsafe mechanisms, you know, like kind of big holes in mountains in West Virginia or wherever it is, that we needed in times of real crisis. CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2002

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