How to use polished in a sentence

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• She polished the furniture with beeswax to give it a shine.From the entry beeswax
• He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.From the entry shine
• They polished off the last of the cake.From the entry polish off
• White rice is rice that has had the brownish hull polished off leaving just the white inner part of the grain.From the entry polish off
• He polished up the chrome until it gleamed.From the entry polish
• The band has polished its performance since the last concert.From the entry polish
• Yes, it's 'only' a small block, but it’s got some tricks up its sleeve — it's been bored, stroked, ported, polished, and fuel-injected.From the entry stroke
• These dolls were traditionally made of fabric stuffed with straw, and they often had carved wooden ears and polished coals for eyes.From the entry wooden ear
• The surface which is produced appears finely ground to polished by means of this procedure.2018, H Glimpel, HJ Lauffer, A Bremstahler, Finishing Tool, In Particular End Milling Cutter, US Patent App. 15/764,739. From the entry ground
• I have no trouble imagining that it belongs to some polished douchenozzle of a lawyer.2013, M. Leighton, Everything for Us, Berkley, →ISBN. From the entry douchenozzle
• Wet sanding yields its best results on clear coats that are then polished.2013, Dennis W. Parks, How to Paint Your Car: Revised & Updated, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry wet sanding
• His skin, normally like polished bronze, was drained flat, as if he'd been bleached.2011, Chyna Chyna, FAM: Rolling in a London Girl Gang. From the entry crep
• You can imagine no set of people more polished, powdered, tonified and Englified, than they are.2011, Anne MacVicar Grant, J. P. Grant, Letters from the Mountains, →ISBN. From the entry tonified
• Be sure to prefit all polished and deburred shift rails in the case.2010, Paul Cangialosi, How to Rebuild and Modify High-Performance Manual Transmissions, page 115. From the entry prefit
• The deshrets of the rest of the Legion were polished and plumed with gold and amethyst.2010 March, Graham McNeill, “Skarssen / The Demands of War / Wyrdmake”, in A Thousand Sons: All Is Dust… (The Horus Heresy; 12)…. From the entry deshret
• She took off her sunnies and polished them, a little vigorously.2005, Dave Franklin, Manic Streets of Perth, published 2011, unnumbered page. From the entry sunnies
• Obscure manuscripts and well-known texts reside cheek-by-jowl; so too, polished literary works and oral narratives.2004, Howard Schwartz, Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism, page xxxv. From the entry cheek-by-jowl
• I mean that floor's slippery - I only polished it this morning.2001 March 29, Gervase Phinn, Over Hill and Dale, Penguin UK, →ISBN. From the entry zimmer
• Pa and the two children washed and polished all the windows, and Henry scrubbed B.1988, Mary Steele, Mallyroot's Pub at Misery Ponds, Ringwood: Puffin Books, page 71. From the entry sandsoap
• Mirrors can be cleaned with warm water and ammonia or vinegar and polished with a chamois.1984, Cruising World, page 158. From the entry chamois
• I have not yet quite polished that anecdotum of mine to my satisfaction.1965, David Roy Shackleton Bailey, Cicero’s Letters to Atticus, 371 (xiv. 17) — Pompeii, 3 May 44 — cicero to atticus: ¶ 6, page 49 ^〃…. From the entry anecdotum
• There lay his stud of polished darlings, the belamped streamlined docile monsters of years of collecting.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 304. From the entry belamped
• He found some glasses which didn't look very clean and polished them on a chintz window curtain.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind. From the entry chintz
• A few sets of tooled leather bindings were set out on narrow polished tables, between book ends.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 22. From the entry tooled
• The walls were lined with paper-bark, pipe-clayed and panelled with polished bloodwood.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 92. From the entry pipeclay
• I took them, breathed on them, polished them with a chamois and hung them on the chandelier.1926, Louise de Koven Bowen, Growing Up with a City, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry chamois
• The family was alone in the parlour with the great polished box.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 6, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry lay out
• Atterbury, with his priceless polished poll, busy in the main office room dictating letters..1908, O. Henry, A Tempered Wind. From the entry poll
• UNE is also very smartly made, polished, captivating, and cohesive, with no perceptible cinematic hamburger helper; there are no wasted words.2025 May 26, The New America, The New America 2012-Current, page 43. From the entry hamburger helper
• Slitterhead is not a particularly polished experience.2024 December 9, Jacob Geller, “11 of the Best Games From a Staggeringly Good Year of Games” (6:34 from the start), in (Please provide the…. From the entry frictiony
• The instrumentation on this song is so pure and polished that it has to be applauded for its production.2022, Trenton Bailey, Do You Remember? Celebrating Fifty Years of Earth, Wind & Fire. From the entry instrumentation
• That includes some handpainted walls using oxidized metal paint, unusual lighting and artwork, warm woods and polished concrete floor.2018 April 1, Maureen Wallenfang, “Open: Wildflower Pizzeria gets cooking”, in The Post-Crescent, volume 99, number 72, page 1D, columns 3–4. From the entry living-roomy
• Others may simply allow the mangagement ring to play both roles and have it polished up for the big day.2014 February 14, Samantha Zabell, “The Rise of the Man-gagement Ring”, in The Atlantic. From the entry mangagement ring
• Jan Švankmajer’s stop-motion looks angry, rough, and primal; Henry Selick’s is so polished and smooth that it resembles CGI.2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry stop-motion
• The facade was finished in polished marble and bronze set into limestone, completely plain except for softly, almost invisibly, deckled keystones.2008 February 10, Christopher Gray, “A Little Jewel Box of a Shoe Store”, in New York Times. From the entry deckled
• Yet here among this vast polished cast, the game of mea culpa, tua culpa was played out with far more skulk.2008, Marlena de Blasi, “Part II: Tosca’s Story”, in That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, chapter…. From the entry tua culpa
• More’s the pity, for this work (technically a serenata) is a little gem, and Aulos polished it to a fine luster.2007 January 25, James R. Oestreich, “The Shepherd, the Sea Nymph and the Big Rock, Abridged”, in New York Times. From the entry serenata
• A hearthful of flames flung warmth into this room, cheerily bouncing their glow off polished walnut furniture and silver-gilt.2007, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Lady of the Sorrows, →ISBN. From the entry hearthful
• Good technical writing is sleek as polished steel.2005, Vicki Spanel, The 9 rights of every writer: a guide for teachers, page 128. From the entry technical writing

Meaning of polished

1. adjective Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
2. adjective Refined, elegant.

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Questions about polished in a sentence

How do you use polished in a sentence?

Polished is used as an adjective. For example: “She polished the furniture with beeswax to give it a shine.”

What is a short sentence with polished?

“a polished performance”

What does polished mean?

Polished means made smooth or shiny by polishing.