Example Sentences

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Her fictions sit on the page with the well-rubbed assurance of fact, as if their details were calmly agreed upon, and long established.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2014

All about me was spotless and bright—scoured floor, polished grate, and well-rubbed chairs.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

They should be covered with well-rubbed straw, pressed down carefully and gently.

From Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Piper, Hugh

All about me was spotless and bright—scoured floor, polished grate, and well-rubbed chairs. 

From Jane Eyre by Townsend, F. H.

In the low grounds of Switzerland we get a dark, tough clay, packed with scratched and well-rubbed stones, and containing here and there some admixture of sand and irregular beds and patches of earthy gravel.

From Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Donnelly, Ignatius