POLISH in a Sentence

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109 example sentences for POLISH, such as:

1. He polished off the whole pie.
2. Apply polish with a soft brush.
3. Use acetone to remove nail polish.
4. Elbow grease gives the best polish.
5. Marble can be polished to a high gloss.

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 Meanings and Examples of POLISH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
polish
 v.  remove flaws from; perfect or complete
Classic Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
1  Three days' reddish beard fringed his jaws and every two or three minutes a mist gathered on his glasses so that he had to take them off and polish them with his pocket-handkerchief.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
2  Going down the stairs his glasses became so dimmed with moisture that he had to take them off and polish them.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
3  At this Farrington told the boys to polish off that and have another.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
4  He said it had been his experience that when women gave surprise parties they usually gave them on the very nights men had decided to polish and clean all the guns in the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
5  If the air of Munro was more commanding and manly, it wanted both the ease and insinuating polish of that of the Frenchman.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
6  She had to wash the cups every morning, and polish up the old-fashioned spoons, the fat silver teapot, and the glasses till they shone.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
7  You see, never has it fallen to my lot to acquire the brilliant polish which is, so to speak, manifest in your every movement.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
8  It was a new carriage, shiny with varnish, and the harness was new too, with bits of polished brass here and there.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  Usually, the more he drank, the more polished became his manners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
10  He was not drinking as he had formerly, becoming increasingly more polished and biting as the liquor took hold of him, saying amusing, malicious things that made her laugh in spite of herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
11  Rosedale still stood before her in an expectant attitude, and she continued to face him in silence, her glance just level with his polished baldness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
12  It was as brilliantly polished as the one below, but here at least she could burn a few papers with less risk of incurring her aunt's disapproval.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
13  His black shoes were blunt and not well polished.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  The high light was a polished copper pot filled with primroses.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  Along the drive below her swept barouches, with a mechanical tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, and great cars with polished black hoods and engines quiet as the sigh of an old man.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  It took a considerable amount of polish and elbow grease before the brass shone like new.
2  Apply polish with a soft brush.
3  By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.
4  Elbow grease gives the best polish.
5  This car polish is an effective shield against rust.
6  The house smelt of cedar wood and fresh polish.
7  With this polish you can give a good high gloss to the wood.
8  Use acetone to remove nail polish.
9  These boys polish their piano techniques for years.
10  The difference between putting down a first draft and getting to the final polish is amazing.
11  He polished off the whole pie.
12  Manilow gave the slick, polished performance that we've come to expect.
13  When I was little I used to like sliding on the polished floor in my socks.
14  Marble can be polished to a high gloss.
15  He rough-hewed a statue out of a block of jade rapidly but then polished it slowly over a long period.