Example Sentences

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Training didn’t only happen at the start of production because, for several reasons, the actors needed to repolish their newly learned skills throughout filming.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

Casting was geared to turn a prostitute into an angel, to repolish a yaking common scold, or curve hard lips into "the kindly weak smiles of a deserving claimant."

From Time Magazine Archive

In consequence, the possessor of such a telescope, if he wishes to keep it in order, must always be prepared to resilver and repolish it.

From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon

My attorney hath now his leave of absence from me, to anew paint the green door, and repolish the brass knocker of his country villa.

From Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

Let us season our reading, polish it, grain it, varnish it, repolish it and revarnish it, until we are just like it ourselves—clear, concise, intelligent.

From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by McGovern, John