varnish

Further on, the stench of varnish from an outhouse is overpowering.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Nonfarmale’s transfer was deemed perfectly done, but discolored varnish was removed, holes and cracks were repaired, and, as is modern practice, restored areas were made congruent with the rest by delicate watercolor cross-hatching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

I cubed the steak and browned it hard in my cherry red Dutch oven, watching it cast off its fat and leave behind a savory varnish on the enamel.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2025

Such resin was used as a preservative in wine and, in Egypt, as incense and as varnish on funerary equipment of the New Kingdom era.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

Although we are warned that some of these will dissolve varnish, paint, and synthetic fabrics, we are presumably to infer that the human skin is impervious to chemicals.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Göransson has scored every Coogler picture since his 2009 student film “Locks,” and he never merely varnishes them with music in postproduction — he is truly Coogler’s co-author.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

Coating fossils with varnishes and/or lacquers was the norm in the past and sometimes is still necessary to preserve a fossil specimen in museum cabinets and exhibits.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024

He then paints them with natural pigments and varnishes them with the sap of piñon, the stocky pine tree that dots the countryside.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2023

MTV’s picture of the art world varnishes the sheer desperation and insecurity found at almost every level of the game.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

As a general rule, varnishes rich in manganese dry more quickly in a dry atmosphere, while those containing small quantities dry more quickly in a damp atmosphere.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

She rushed off to have her nails varnished at her favorite salon, which was destroyed in the mall strike but has reopened in a building nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

They were stripped of paint, polished and varnished for their second life.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

A quick way to see whether something is laminated or varnished is to tear it, she explained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

What began as a modest exercise culminated in a convivial, jovial celebration of a man sitting at a small table, cheering while an applauding, beaming crowd varnished heaps of adoration onto him.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2022

For a while, they walked around the store, pacing the dusty, varnished two-by-fours that comprised a floor, pretending to consider various snacks, drinks, and minnows swimming in bait tanks.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

Ironically, the 1974 varnishing and warm wax relining had helped keep the surface paint in place when the violent ripping happened.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022

Shipwrights and volunteers will be recorking about 4,000 linear feet of seams on deck, conducting mechanical systems maintenance, painting and varnishing.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2022

Díaz’s approach is plain and solid, like a well-built wooden chair before varnishing.

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020

This past Wednesday afternoon, owner Theresa Blankenship was busy varnishing the top of an old wooden cabinet-looking item that came with the inn.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 18, 2016

They went on with their work of sanding or varnishing the newly finished benches, but they didn’t talk.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes