varnished

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023

How a star’s public persona, varnished or unvarnished, can dictate what they can get away with in the eye of their followers.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2023

Villagers instituted lay church caretakers called “mayordomos,” and filled chapels with elaborate altarpieces made of local wood and varnished with pine sap.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 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

All those shoes sliding and scraping up the floor, leaving black shoe polish across the newly varnished floor.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia