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.
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 cool elegance of the shapes, such as stemmed goblets, is matched by the smooth silvery-grey burnished surfaces.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
But we have trouble seeing them for what they really are because of the images burnished into our consciousness by movie-makers.
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 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
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
Sunlight tracked a path of sparkling white highlights toward the skyline, a light as harsh as if it were reflecting off burnished metal.
The form of his grey Stetson had lost its definition, and the burnished highlights of his dark eyes were conspicuously absent. DANSVILLE
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
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.
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
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.
The box was fashioned of antique burnished rosewood, with brass cylinders and myriad bells all working in perfectly refined unison.
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
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.
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.
a burnished brass knocker
It was unburnished gray - aluminum or magnesium, by its light weight - and smoothly streamlined.
There was a creature of burnished shadow in her, dark and sleek and protean. SACRAMENT
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
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.
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.
He burnished JFK's reputation as a great president. Times, Sunday Times
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.
A burnished finish softens the outlines and underscores the sculpted story. Times, Sunday Times
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
This vessel also has an evened rim and a rounded lip, and is burnished on both interior and exterior surfaces.
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.
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.
The unburnished female voice in the ad is effective. Election Central Saturday Roundup
Yet another chance to retire, reputation burnished, was passed up. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
Yet another chance to retire, reputation burnished, was passed up. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
It was burnished silver, and the eyes of the dragon were indeed tiny emeralds, and the dragon's teeth were made of ivory.
The foliage of this winter clematis is the most beautiful of the lot, turning a burnished bronze in the cold weather. Times, Sunday Times
Higher and higher wheels the great sun, driving the river mist before it and sending down through the softly whispering foliage a thousand shafts of burnished gold that seek out the violet, drain the nectareous dewdrop from its chalice and kiss the grape until its youthful sap changes to empurpled blood beneath the passionate caress. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
The graphite is readily removed during polishing and in this case the cavities can be either burnished over or enlarged.
Sunlight tracked a path of sparkling white highlights toward the skyline, a light as harsh as if it were reflecting off burnished metal.
Pick a clear autumnal day and watch the sunlight dancing over the River Arun as it snakes through the patchwork fields now burnished rich browns and greens. Times, Sunday Times
Those strange, topaz eyes from which a core of burnished steel looked out upon the world.
A burnished finish softens the outlines and underscores the sculpted story. Times, Sunday Times
The man is dull silver like burnished dirt on the heel of a hand.
She has a vision of her cattery, its concrete floors burnished like metal.
He burnished JFK's reputation as a great president. Times, Sunday Times
Caroline Fellows, her red hair in a burnished upsweep, was giving her undivided attention to YELLOW BIRD
He has a well schooled voice with easily reached, burnished low tones.
The normal dark-green traps and burnished red porphyries and grits were sparsely clad with the Shauhat and the Yasár trees, resembling the The Land of Midian
The new gold was burnished before the lattice pattern was inscribed and the punching executed using tools specially made to imitate the original ones.
The book, it seems, has burnished Howe's reputation brighter than ever.
If she ever had a home, it would hold burnished mahogany tables and richly brocaded upholsteries. A Hellion in Her Bed
His armor, once immaculately burnished gold, was now tarnished and dented in a dozen locations.
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
The clouds glowed like burnished gold.
By the time Delvin burnished the last of the tape and pulled the leads down the sun was rising. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Poussin perpetuates the convention, which goes back as far as the Pompeian frescoes, of burnished umber men and pearly women.
It not only burnished the family image but was also his one surpassing business triumph.
He had the burnished-copper eye color that she had been seeking, so she bred him to one of her best Burmese females.
There were many flats in the great city, so polished and carved and burnished and be-lackeyed that children were not allowed to enter within the portals, save on visits of ceremony in charge of parents or governesses. The Children's Book of Christmas Stories
And then as regarded fashion, it might perhaps not be beyond the power of a Mrs Proudie to begild the word with a newly burnished gilding. Framley Parsonage
I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel; Sound Politics: We're not going to take it
Gowns in black, burnished orange, cognac and pale pink easily communicate the rock princess vibe, especially when combined with silk taffeta, velvets and plush taffetas.
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.
Caroline Fellows, her red hair in a burnished upsweep, was giving her undivided attention to YELLOW BIRD
It was an impressive sight, gleaming with the burnished sheen of beaten bronze and flashing green marble.
They were so pretty, with those burnished breastplates.

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