Example Sentences
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In Sabina Hahn’s spare, watercolor illustrations, the pickle is a burnished emerald green with round eyes and no mouth—which makes it all the more remarkable when it begins to speak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
He may have lost some mainstream acceptance and his FX series, but has since lined his bank account and burnished his career quite handsomely.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
His comfortable win, in a district where Reform won recent local elections, burnished his credentials as the right man to take on Farage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Initial public euphoria over Pakistan's image being burnished on the global stage has begun to give way to fraying patience after weeks of stop-start restrictions around Islamabad.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
The top part of the painting, where the sky would have been, was covered in burnished silver.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
