Example Sentences
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She rushed off to have her nails varnished at her favorite salon, which was destroyed in the mall strike but has reopened in a building nearby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
She told MPs that this included a “foetal skeleton posed under a glass dome, a human thigh bone turned into a cane, a human jawbone necklace and the varnished skull of a six-year-old”.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024
His family, who had arrived from the Philippines in droves to celebrate his 50th birthday, beamed from the first several rows of glossy, varnished pews.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024
They were stripped of paint, polished and varnished for their second life.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Framed photographs of her parents on the bureau, poems framed on the walls, and her closet— everything in its place, the floor varnished, and her shoes standing diligently side by side.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
