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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

With a nail brush in hand Lisha Dachor,19, whizzed around an events centre in Plateau state, northern Nigeria, adorning hundreds of fingernails with blue, pink and purple varnish.

From BBC ● May 2, 2024

“It really felt like you were in Stradivarius’s workshop — the smells of varnish, there’s parts of violins everywhere. It’s like he was the Willy Wonka of the violin.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

There was a black, bubbled scorch in the varnish of the night table beside his bed.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

It has a high oxidizing value, causing the rapid drying of paints and varnishes to which it has been added.

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

His family, who had arrived from the Philippines in droves to celebrate his 50th birthday, beamed from the first several rows of glossy, varnished pews.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 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

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

She felt under her hand the black-stained varnished pine of the banisters, vaguely neo-Gothic, immovably solid and sham.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

And we applaud university officials who aren’t varnishing their words.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 31, 2019

The “patent” in patent leather means the varnishing and drying process, not a registration with the U.S. governmental office.

From Slate ● May 28, 2014

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