Example Sentences

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Kerouac saw sadness in Frank’s collection, but what is most notable about the staid, unburnished faces now is their comparative sanguinity.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 11, 2019

"How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished," laments Tennyson's Ulysses after his return home from heroism to sit "by this still hearth, among these barren crags."

From Time Magazine Archive

The tunes take on an unburnished immediacy, an instant intimacy that taps straight into Bennett's gift for making a lyric seem like a conversation and a melody like the true rhythm of the heart.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was so Ulysses felt:   How dull it is to pause, to make an end,   To rust unburnished, not to shine in use.

From The Quest of the Simple Life by Dawson, William J.

On his shoulders under the shield he carried a splendid scarlet mantle; over his breast was a great brooch of burnt gold, and in his fist he gripped a pair of thick-shafted, unburnished spears.

From Irish Fairy Tales by Stephens, James