Example Sentences

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It seems that, having developed his own line of jewelry, he feels more comfortable working with exotic gems and precious metals than with tarnishable stainless or bronze.

From Time Magazine Archive

And be sure Wada removes all silver and metallic tarnishable stuff from your rooms. 

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by London, Jack

The lack of sane methods of ventilation also enhances the general dirtiness and dustiness of the present-day home, and gas-lighting and the use of tarnishable metals, wherever possible, involve further labour.

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

He had known himself to be purely a mirror for the world, tarnishable under the breath of the crowd.

From Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 by Chevrillon, André