How To Use Polish In A Sentence

I'll get all the engine cowls off, get all the dust out of it, and a lot of areas have to be repolished.
The principals of the local schools could be counted on for a couple of fresh scrubbed altar boys in charge of polished crucifix, candlesticks and dangerously toxic swinging thuribles.
I find it hard to get my tongue round these Polish names.
From the early 1620s, coastal Indians supplied wampum (sacred shell beads, polished and strung in strands, belts, or sashes) to Dutch traders who exchanged it with inland natives for beaver pelts.
“No, there ain’t no Bowlong,” said the barmaid, taking up a glasscloth and a drying tumbler and beginning to polish the latter. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll

Polish shoes; get new heels or soles if necessary.
Polish the lenses with a piece of tissue.
It's frustrating, and makes the game look unpolished.
Petrifications, where no organic material remains, are usually prepared as thin sections or polished and studied under reflected light.
The manufacturers just don't strive to achieve a mirror-like polish nowadays.
If you polish the article, we will print it in the newspaper.
On this side of the Atlantic, the word means “style” or perhaps “poise” or “polish,” as in classy or a class act. Feckless Youth
The income comes not just from the honey but also beeswax polish and face creams.
Some areas are left uncarved and unpolished, giving a dramatic sense of the raw material.
Given the extremely backward state of Polish agriculture, its small farming businesses are expected to die like flies.
Frequently covered in zits, freckles and pockmarks, his character's faces are detailed in their expressiveness without being overly polished.
But memories of prior political awakenings that ended disastrously were revived when the Polish military cracked down in 1981.
On the other side from the fire was a large polished wood structure, the product of miscegenation between a coatstand and a sideboard. A DEATH IN TIME
And the niveous winter gleam, although polished, could never radiate the warmth of your smile.
He walked his audience through a litany of invaders: Mongol khans, Turkish beys, Swedish feudal lords, Polish and Lithuanian gentry, British and French capitalists, Japanese barons.
It's the most polished and polite they've been all week though. The Sun
Features include mouldings, polished timber floors, high ceilings and decorative plasterwork.
By the time they left at eight thirty, she'd scrubbed the kitchen floor, hoovered the carpet, and polished the TV screen - while he was watching it.
He could only envy the more galactically sophisticated Deyzara his perfect terranglo that in some ways sounded more polished than that of the administrator herself. Drowning World
Put it on wooden feet instead of castors, French polish to show it's original, and it'll look straight 1830. THE TARTAN RINGERS
We know that the type of escape hatch that's on the Kursk is the same that's been on the Kito (ph) class submarines, and these -- the LR5 has exercise with in the -- with a NATO Polish Kito class submarines. CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Russian Submarine Accident: Rear Admiral Cobbald Discusses Rescue Equipment Being Sent Out to Site - August 18, 2000
As a fellow pantzer, I find that it usually takes me at least three drafts before I'm reasonably happy with a story -- the first is my "crapola" discover the story draft, the second is aimed at what readers would want, the third to polish and ((shiver)) copy-edit. An Interview with Allison Brennan
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The fluidity of Polish syntax, due to inflection, makes possible a highly complex structure which, some Polish critics suspect, prevented Sep from attaining a wide readership in his time: he was too difficult.
Woke this morning with the grim realization that I had not polished the column - in fact, I'd just roughed it out, sketched out the basic ideas.
Ensure your interview suit is pressed, shoes polished and shirt ironed.
Phthalates are a large family of industrial chemicals used for their plasticizing properties in nail polishes and in dozens of plastic products, from shower curtains to food wrap; and for their scent-prolonging feature in fragrances.
We described in the paper a new type of polishing pill manufactured by using a rensentlysynthesized superhard ceramic powders of wurtzite-type boron nitride (WBN).
Manilow gave the slick, polished performance that we've come to expect.
In this case, air stripping precedes a conventional biological process, while carbon adsorption is used as a final polishing step.
The tender stood there polishing a unique-looking shot glass, eying the newcomers closely.
The wood engraver uses a hardwood, generally box, sawn across the grain of the wood and highly polished.
Though the bottom ten feet or so had been polished smooth, the flanks higher up were like crumbling battlements. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
It would be nice to have a book discussing Lem's works in Polish which are out of reach for readers in English.
In London the first family in exile was taken in by the Polish ambassador. Times, Sunday Times
With this polish you can give a good high gloss to the wood.
The small grains were repolished and reanalysed to obtain 28 analyses in four sessions.
While polished concrete floors run through the rest of the house, they decided to stick with the original pressed cork that covered the gym floor. Times, Sunday Times
Although the price of the home doesn't reflect a fixer-upper, the original listing also says it is "waiting to be polished. Clarence J. Smale Los Feliz Home: Original Hollywood Glamour
The bath was enormous, shiny white and surrounded by a wide shelf of polished mahogany.
Russian armies crushed the rebellions, with devastating effects for Polish nationhood.
The taut skin of these desiccated animals feels smooth under the hand and hard, like water-polished stone.
His fingers had left marks on the table's polished surface.
It was my job to polish the silver .
I had to move fast, it met my needs, and it has a kind of unpolished charm. RESCUING ROSE
The leaves looked like polished green leather but the trees were all berryless. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
The carpets have been pulled up and replaced by polished floorboards in dark Scottish pine. Times, Sunday Times
Shoe Polisher, Stamp Mate, Wet Towel, Animal Towel Emf Tester, Ceramic Heater Towels.
I've even been damp dusting rather than just a quick polish but it's barely touching the surface.
Given the circumstances, Bouder gave an incredibly polished rendition of the role, weaving the choreographic phrases into a dancerly whole with clarity and detail.
Highly polished bluing - probably the most beautiful of all the finishes - is no longer financially feasible in the small gun shop.
Ten minutes in a playground and the jumper would be off, polished shoes scuffed and shorts stained with apple juice. The Sun
The butcher knife was ruler over the long man of polished, with the thumb on the edge of metal transfer to try, a good skin itching feeling, this feeling is sweet.
While some of the group are consigned to cramped, noisy, airless basement cells, we languish in our very own mini-suite, with polished panelling and heavy traditional furniture, all in rich dark woods.
At its root, Kingsbury Manx offers pleasant, melodic pop that is polished through and through.
She and Ellen between them had turned out the dining-room, giving it extra spit and polish because of Christmas.
The ballade, full of dramatic intensity, mainly inspired by Polish epic poems, was a new musical form invented by Chopin. Chopin's 'Soul and Heart'
He becomes a chiselled ladykiller in polished brogues and a sharp linen suit.
The room smelt strongly of polish.
That nail polish was a positive match, and she's got some explaining to do.
As such I found myself dressed in black pyjamas and hood with only my eyes visible, creeping along a hallway with a particularly well-polished Ottoman strapped to my back and an alabaster vase full of tulips.
He was well read and fluent in English and Polish and was a published political commentator and poet in both languages. Times, Sunday Times
Besides the ghost of Polish anti-Semitism, should not that of Jewish anti-Polonism also be laid to rest? Poland and the Jews: An Exchange
Many of the Indians were already crowding about the train, some with polished buffalo horns for sale, and all magnificently dressed in buckskin, decorated with fine, old-fashioned bead work, and the quills of the porcupine. The Shagganappi
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A Warsaw court on Tuesday began hearing a lawsuit filed by Lech Walesa in which the Solidarity founder is demanding damages from Polish President Lech Kaczynski for having called Walesa a communist-era agent. Undefined
We would balance on his highly polished shoes while he danced across the room. Times, Sunday Times
The diamonds he watches so closely are not the rocks on the rings of the rich and famous, they are tiny grains of pure carbon coating the blades, polishers and shapers the company produces.
Polish is my mother tongue. Times, Sunday Times
From £151 per person, fly from Prestwick to the Polish city and get two nights’ B&B at the two-star Krakus Hotel.
Make Blog has a great roundup of links and coverage for the opening of Bletchley Park's recreation of the Polish "bombe" code-cracking devices that were instrumental in breaking the German Enigma cipher in World War II. Boing Boing
Tuszynska had never heard of Gran before Polish Jews in Paris told her about the singer—sometimes, the “collaborationist” singer—living in their midst.
He then used a handheld planetary polishing tool with diamond cutting pads to put a high grit finish on the surface.
And the Polish stopper admits he could be loaned to a Championship club. The Sun
You may protect the finish with a liquid furniture wax or cream polish that gives the desired gloss.
greige" shade debuted on the runway in October, and since going on sale in January, the company says it is its top-selling polish and has sold out three times on The Seattle Times
When he found that it was for people of consequence in a private room that the articles were required, he set to work with a will and produced a polish "that would have struck envy to the soul of _the amiable Mr. Warren_, _for they used Day and Martin's at the_ '_White Pickwickian Studies
Abbe Rochon, who discovered the double refracting power in some of the natural crystals, had lately made a telescope with the metal called platina, which, while it is as susceptible of as perfect a polish as the metal heretofore used for the specula of telescopes, is insusceptible of rust, as gold and silver are. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1
The leaves of the great poplar he climbed in gleamed as though polished; bead-like fruit dangled, inviting young hands to burst the green capsules open and release the fluffy seed.
Hither ascended a _cantonnier_ when the new road was made up the valley, and here he found chipped flints of primeval man, a polished celt, a scrap of Samian ware, and in a niche at the side sealed up with stalactite, a tiny earthenware pitcher 2-1/2 inches high, a leaden spindle-whorl, some shells, and a toy sheep-bell. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
She pictured herself with pink lipstick and violet nail polish and a little blush.
It is what drama is all about: a highly polished mirror reflecting the realities of a messy, urban world. Times, Sunday Times
In his early years he also sold a variety of articles like accordions, concertinas and mouth-organs, costume accessories and straw hat polish - anything indeed which would turn an honest penny.
They just need to polish their technique.
Theirs was the Prince of Wales carriage, an historic carriage of de luxe suites which smelt of cedar polish.
The scattering cells consisted of polished borosilicate vials with stoppers.
A Polish computer programmer could face up to three years in jail for linking a Polish word for penis to the presidential Web site. September 17th, 2007
Then, after sawing, a diamond goes through bruting—which is rounding—faceting, and finally polishing. Crystal Death
It is a polished film by an accomplished director, able to hold its own on the international stage.
On another occasion Heine writes that Kalkbrenner is envied for his elegant manners, for his polish and sweetishness, and for his whole marchpane-like appearance, in which, however, ihe calm observer discovers a shabby admixture of involuntary Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
The robust, authentic Polish home cooking is cheap and satisfying and served cafeteria-style.
A matt finish solid silver leaf is fashioned into a beautiful pendant, earrings and also as the silver decoration on a polished wooden bangle. Times, Sunday Times
The front door opened onto a large hallway which ran all the way through the rest of the house to the back door; its lime-bleached walls enhanced the reddish patina of the ground-floor windows, as well as the studwork and the polished wood of the doorways. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Kwaque, squatted on the floor, his hams on his heels, paused from the rough-polishing of a shell comb designed and cut out by his master, and looked up, eager to receive command and serve. CHAPTER IV
The material's specific surface area of a few hundred square meters per cubic centimeter corresponds to about a thousand times that of a polished silicon wafer.
It's all long-wearing, reasonably priced, and extremely polished. Boing Boing
It took a considerable amount of polish and elbow grease before the brass shone like new.
The hard rock, which yields a shining black surface with copper-coloured spots when polished, transformed the poor villages with no irrigation facility to speak of, into a hub of economic activity.
I wiggled into the pantyhose, did a spit polish on the pumps, and slipped into those.
The floors were scrupulously polished pine; there were gas lights on the walls and lacy curtains.
Save for a very unpolished Polish accent, Elizabeth Wilson is a sturdy Zofia.
Both have polished floorboards, original cast iron fireplaces with tiled insets and ornate period plasterwork.
As any matelot will confirm, to get a good polish, a little spit and a lot of elbow grease go along way, so let's see if Combet and Burrows can for once lead by example
The acts will be able to polish up their routines on mats and screens which provide dancers with steps to follow while playing a particular song.
With my rag, I scooped some rubbing compound and began polishing silverware for the banquet.
The veined and variegated appearance of the colors suggests the polished marble stone used in architecture and monuments.
There were also several polished gems and stones, each serving a different purpose, along with many partially burnt candles.
Since all of the above are inventions of the high-growth period that lingered into the 1990s, I think that what we are seeing now is a combination of commercialized polish (once reserved for the massification of Taisho middle class culture and is now falling along with depato) and fast 風土 with prewar styles of community organization (rural village youth organization or collections of young people around an urban nagaya - always pretty randy). Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Yanmama Boom
The Polish Hockey Association secretary also came into the field and accused the Pakistanis of unsporting behaviour.
This, however, is only a fleshy outer rind -- epicarp -- which, as it ripens, opens into two equal parts, when within is seen a spherical polished nut, surrounding an aril, the mace, which is of a bright yellow colour. In the Eastern Seas
Don't expect polished sculptures and gilt framed pictures. Times, Sunday Times
I put boot polish on them. Times, Sunday Times
Each character was perfectly cast and the acting polished. Times, Sunday Times
It is what drama is all about: a highly polished mirror reflecting the realities of a messy, urban world. Times, Sunday Times
The kitchens are Shaker style with chrome fittings, polished granite worktops and stainless steel extractors.
With a polished heel and a hessian platform, these shoes are a structural work of art. The Higher the Heel, the Harder the Fall
Forte's experience during the crisis shows another advantage of many Polish companies: nimbleness. Euro's Allure Dims in Eastern Europe
They removed all the stone lining from the walls of both rooms, reground and repolished all of the plates, and then placed them back where they had originally been.
Silicon wafers used for building microcircuits are usually polished at one specific angle to the atomic planes of silicon.
The accommodation includes an entrance hall with polished timber flooring, ceiling coving, recessed lighting and understairs storage.
She made a Polish cake that was heavy with eggs and ripe cherries. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
It was a warm night and under the glow of the electrolier Rosemary's magnificent hair curled and shone like polished bronze. Rosemary
There is a particular smell, a compound, I think, of floor polish and burnt egg, which I shall forever associate with boarding school.
This polished section of a tooth crown reveals figure-eight patterns of the blue mineral vivianite, a phosphate of iron.
I went in - into the varnishy hall, smelling of old overcoats and furniture polish. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
The lounge is furnished with well-selected finds from local vintage shops, while the four subtly styled upstairs rooms all have shiny, polished parquet floors. South America: Perfect posadas
In the beginning, multi-faceted objects were machined from solid aluminum and hand-polished by sculptor John Noestheden.
But their forlorn, polished California pop is like the sprawling Valley suburbs: nice enough, if that's your sort of thing.
It can also be used on plastics and fiberglass and for polishing stainless steel, high carbon steel, or bronze.
Their spokespersons morphed into polished television performers overnight.
I also applied a final polish to give the car its dream gleam. The Sun
We'd expected modern and clean, with curtains, carpets and polished samovars, happy, helpful provodniks and reputedly awful food.
Having no business education except that acquired from common experience and observation, and no schooling except of the most rudimentary kind, he would express himself clearly in unpolished but forcible and terse language, and would write out with his own hand a contract which, for precision and completeness, few lawyers could equal. Living in Dryden: John Southworth
The Polish economy has been under pressure and the zloty has fallen by about 10 per cent against the euro since the start of June.
It was not the Greeks' practice to place the family silver in graves, nor was it subjected to deep polishing.
polished rice
The inside of the same commode shows that the interior is highly polished which would not appear on an original 18th century original.
Three mighty bearskin rugs covered the polished wooden floor. NIMITZ CLASS
Apply a little wax polish.
The machine is suitable for fluffing, edging and polishing of outsole and heel.
coated paper has a smooth polished coating especially suitable for halftone printing
For best results, design metal reference surfaces to interface with polished surfaces on lenses rather than with ground rims or bevels; you will then use the most accurately made surfaces for lens positioning.
That, and the envy-inducing smartness of the writing, so polished and sharp, so epigrammatic. Times, Sunday Times
I think he is really getting quite polished in his manners. North and South
They polished him off by crowning him with a Coca-Cola bottle.
Understandably, they were subject to sporadic physical attacks from partisans and Polish villagers. Refugees in the Age of Total War
The 16-year-old R&B singer has teamed with Nicole for OPI to start a line of fingernail polishes based on his songs, according to AOL's Style List. Justin Bieber to Launch a Nail Polish Line
The second double bedroom has polished wooden floorboards, a picture window and built-in wardrobes.
In fact, the album's overall polished countenance doesn't seem to jive with the band's supposed rootsy goals.
Characteristically he used broadly contoured forms and polished his surfaces to immaculate smoothness, unbroken by projections or incisions.
To really add to its worth just polish it lots and admire it. The Sun
There were four or five pictures -- one, a bass-relief of Endymion, deep asleep, yet conscious in his dream that the moon is peeping shyly over his polished shoulder, had been copied from a famous original by Sophie herself. Bressant
The last issue had a good letter from someone who signed himself Conscript, describing how he and his comrades were forced to waste their time in polishing brass, blacking the rubber hoses on stirrup pumps with boot polish, scraping broom handles with razor blades, and so on. As I Please
Even French women of modest means are much more likely than American women to get treatments in spas or clinics that scrub, polish, buff, massage and cream their skins.
Q Entertainment's move to polish up and re-serve its head-spinning shooter Rez was one of the best things to happen to Xbox Live (and us, frankly). Computer And Video Games
The plant will strip and repolish test wafers, and will be the first plant to reclaim 300 mm wafers on an industrial scale.
The Polish economy began to show signs of recovery.
Polishing, using a rotating brush and abrasive paste, removes stains from teeth.
Another corner houses a minimal home office and the sea of polished concrete floor unites it all. Times, Sunday Times
Germany, however, insists on restrictions on the import of Polish coal.
It adds a degree of polish and when used carefully, makes life more enjoyable for those around you.
Elbow grease gives the best polish.
I was 18 and learnt to polish silver and starch collars. The Sun
They were brown and the polish was chipping slowly.
I went to the El Gouna marina, not yet filled with white polished yachts because the international yachting brigade were still out in the Med.
Also, are the edges of the lenses exposed, such as rimless frames (or half frames), a stronger / thicker prescription, or "polished" edges on the lenses? Ask MetaFilter
We Westerners love confronting the inadequacy of our rationalism and Amagatu capitalises on that, giving us also polished performances and exquisite stagecraft to hold our attention when our metaphysical appreciation wanes.
According to TMZ. com, the casket, called a Promethean, will feature a blue velvet interior and a hand-polished, mirror finish. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
I polished my axe and the spike on the shield, put on my armor and went out of the tent.
Your essay is good, you just need to polish it a bit.
Like the wheel, it is constantly being reinvented, perfected and polished. Times, Sunday Times
It had been kept oiled and polished, but it was a single-shot, wildly inaccurate at long range, with a kick like a mule's. LORD OF THE SILENT
These artists added sophisticated polish to country music, facilitating its popularity among middle-class audiences.
I leaned on the polished wooden bannister until his head was level with mine and our eyes met.
There is a Polish folksong that I learned in school and the English translation starts, "Ah, lovely meadows green and wide."
At my altar, I deploy cotton pledgets dipped in remover, clean flecks of old polish off each nail, then file the sides
There is the classic, carefully crafted shtick of the old-fashioned nightclub comedian, routines and rib-ticklers cast and recast into perfectly polished pearls of witticism.
He removed his glasses and began polishing the lenses with a white silk handkerchief. Times, Sunday Times
Most fantastic and, as it proved, most disastrous of all the follies of Versailles, was the creation of the free city of Danzig and what was called the Polish Corridor. The Shape of Things to Come
Multi-lingual, he liked to retire with a book, was well-polished in letters and enjoyed scholarly debate.
Polished plaster is hard-wearing and durable, needing only occasional dusting and an annual re-wax.
His principal soprano leggiero was Mlle. Pinkert, a Polish singer of good routine and fine skill; his dramatic soprano, Mlle. Russ, whose knowledge of the conventions of the stage was complete, and expressive powers excellent, though they exerted little charm. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
She polished off the remaining potatoes
He translated not only from the French but also, on occasion, from the Polish.
The whole equipment was that of a rude warrior, negligent of his exterior even to misanthropical sullenness; and the short, harsh, haughty tone, which he used towards his attendants, belonged to the same unpolished character. The Abbot
Into this the winds would drop from the high places like broken-winged birds, dashing themselves against the polished walls of the Pyweack, dashing and falling back and crying woundedly. The Trail Book
This meant that in his search for a new language to express himself he was obliged to break existing artistic conventions, which required an elegance and polish that stifled all feelings.
Robert was polishing up some old silver candlesticks.
Hunter's manuscript pages were themselves manic, bristling works of art designed to turn the long, tedious job of writing, editing, polishing, and retyping a manuscript into a task worth staying up for.
I feel you would have a first-class high-selling novel if you could polish up the story in the areas I've mentioned.
It's the one thing you can use to add instant polish. Times, Sunday Times
But many Poles hold on to him as a very special person, a very special musician whose music really says Poland, especially when he took different forms, Polish dances, like the mazurka, and took a rustic dance and made high art out of it. Chopin With A Polish Touch
In many cases the vases are bicolour, the body being of a fine smooth red, polished with a stone, while the neck and base are of an intense black, the surface of which is even more shining than that of the red part. History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
Always use a base coat to even out the nail surface and to prevent dark polishes staining.
As if to mirror this discovery, Part Two is full of highly polished and accomplished writing, beautiful in ways unallowable in Part One.
The New Yorker essayist George Plimpton also remembered that invasion of the Harlem peacocks in their enormous purple Cadillacs: "I'd never seen crowds as fancy, especially the men – felt hatbands and feathered capes, and the stilted shoes, the heels like polished ebony, and many smoking stuff in odd meerschaum pipes. The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed

How To Use Polish In A Sentence

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