furbish

Example Sentences

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When Andrew Friedman arrived in Los Angeles, he hoped to furbish a player-development machine that hummed like the one in St. Louis.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2016

Yet it seems to be more important to furbish large roadside coffee pots,” McCain said.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2011

He grew increasingly convinced that I was needlessly trafficking with his enemies in the "Georgetown set" and at the same time was using my public relations skills to furbish my image and not his.

From Time Magazine Archive

And Canada's CCF socialists, although they still had their leader, Schoolmasterish Major J. Coldwell, had already called a national convention Aug. 19 to furbish up a new platform.

From Time Magazine Archive

She would have Sophie to look over all her “toilettes,” as she called frocks; to furbish up any that were “passées,” and to air and arrange the new.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë