polish
Example Sentences
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My aunt turns down the burner and motions for us to sit at the polished wooden table.
From Literature
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It was a good stick: straight and thick and so smooth it might have been polished, except for one little pointed bump in the middle.
From Literature
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“Yes, ma’am,” I said back, still polishing the plate that was between us.
From Literature
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Now he has grown into that slightly quirky style - it isn't polished, and I don't want it to be.
From BBC
The black-and-white image — nearly five feet wide — is so crisp that bits of the woman’s toenail polish glimmer and the hair on her thigh appears to spark.
From Los Angeles Times
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