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• The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.From the entry creep
• This clear varnish is available in gloss, matt and eggshell finishes.From the entry eggshell
• Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes.From the entry drying oil
• Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.From the entry strip
• We sell a range of varnishes and other woodcare products.From the entry woodcare
• Come to think of it, this nail varnish generally is looking a bit scrotty.2013, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: The Singleton Years. From the entry scrotty
• Cerro Colorado is composed of granitic rocks covered with a dark-colored desert varnish.1998, John Minch, “Geology Roadlog”, in Lowell Lindsay, William G. Hample, editors, Geology and Geothermal Resources of the Imperial and…. From the entry darkly
• Some wet sanding and a few more coats of varnish had it looking respectable enough to antique.1976, Leslie Linsley, The Decoupage Workshop, page 68. From the entry wet sanding
• The only way to use such a sticky varnish was to mulcify it with white of egg.1913, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, page 12. From the entry mulcify
• The future is often varnished, and that may be expected, but rose-tinting the present may be equally commonplace.2016, Richard Bolden, Morgen Witzel, Nigel Linacre, Leadership Paradoxes: Rethinking Leadership for an Uncertain World, →ISBN. From the entry rose-tint
• Jonny watches me powder his varnished carrom board.2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 199. From the entry carrom
• Varnished clinker planking is common in Scandinavia.2004, Hal Roth, “The Corpus Itself”, in How to Sail Around the World: Advice and Ideas for Voyaging under Sail, Camden, Me.; New York…. From the entry clinker-built
• Varnishes that contain polyvinyl acetate are nonyellowing.1994, Jackie Shaw, The Big Book of Decorative Painting. From the entry nonyellowing
• The kernels yield an oil, anacardic oil, used in the preparation of varnishes, typewriter rolls, paints and water-proofing paper.1993, S. N. Pandey, Ajanta Chadha, A Text Book Ofbotany: Plant Anatomy and Economic Botany, →ISBN. From the entry anacardic
• Inside, it was darker than a plains bungalow, all the woodwork being stained and blobbily varnished; the rooms were much smaller.1954, Philip Mason, The Men Who Ruled India: The Guardians, St. Martin's Press, page 194. From the entry blobbily
• All recently-constructed coaches have varnished masonite panelling.1952 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive and Coach Livery , G.N.R. (I.)”, in Railway Magazine, page 358. From the entry masonite
• Only they've ruined it with coats of varnish."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 49. From the entry wall table
• The gum was also used for dyeing, tanning and varnishing.1946, Walkabout, volume 13, page 49. From the entry blackboy
• To occupy any spare moments left us, in the course of our four weeks' 'basic' we had to razor-blade all the varnish off these chairs.2021, Raymond Horricks, Military Mayhem. From the entry razor-blade
• Cam once explained to my brother that Stradivarius had sprinkled volcanic ash between the wood and the varnish on his violins, lushening their sound.2012, Leni Zumas, The Listeners, page 72. From the entry lushen
• Wipe the surface with a cloth dampened with mineral spirits in order to remove the sanding dust, then brush on a full coat of varnish.2009, Albert Jackson, David Day, Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry cloth
• To make the rod “look better,” he underwrapped all the guides and finished them off with fancy, spiral windings and 3 heavy coats of varnish.1956, Florida Wildlife - Volumes 10-11, page 78. From the entry underwrap
• The dining-table, uncollapsible and highly varnished, the piano, the chesterfield, stuffed chairs and a few sofas made a foundation on which to heap lesser articles.1944, Emily Carr, “The House of All Sorts”, in Furniture. From the entry uncollapsible
• The characteristics of the soils, vegetation, desert varnish, slope of the stream channel, and drainage texture are used to confirm the location of the primary diffluence.1992, H. W. Hjalmarson, S. P. Kemna, Flood Hazards of Distributary-flow Areas in Southwestern Arizona. From the entry diffluence
• Sugar soap, states a writer in the "Pharmaceutical Journal," is a soap powder used by painters for washing down purposes before applying new coats of paint and varnish.1930, The Chemical Trade Journal and Chemical Engineer. From the entry sugar soap

Meaning of varnish

1. noun A clear or translucent liquid coating composed of resin dissolved in a solvent, which dries by evaporation to form a hard, protective, and typically glossy finish.
2. noun Anything resembling such a coating; a glossy appearance.
3. noun A deceptively showy appearance.

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How do you use varnish in a sentence?

Varnish is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.”

What is a short sentence with varnish?

“varnish the report”

What does varnish mean?

Varnish means a clear or translucent liquid coating composed of resin dissolved in a solvent, which dries by evaporation to form a hard, protective, and typically glossy finish.