burnished

How To Use burnished 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
• 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.
• 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
• Redness lights the interior of the submersible; the glow from dials and video screens reflects softly off the burnished titanium hull.