Example Sentences

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They have varnished up a thriller called Crescendo that thudded on the road last winter�and that is still dead wood.

From Time Magazine Archive

If we didn't know thim dongolas was wather-proof we should have varnished thim before we put thim in th' lake t' soak.

From The Water goats and other troubles by Butler, Ellis Parker

Instead of unmasking abruptly this ugly corruption, he would have varnished it over, and unveiled it by degrees.

From Priests, Women, and Families by Michelet, Jules