TARNISH in a Sentence
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15 example sentences for TARNISH, such as:
1. In this case a tarnished, a spotted soul.
2. The air and days did tarnish these coins.
3. The party needs to clean up its somewhat tarnished image.
4. The tarnish of shame and guilt that enveloped her spread to him as well.
5. There was Sir Henry Ashton, who had to leave England with a tarnished name.
2. The air and days did tarnish these coins.
3. The party needs to clean up its somewhat tarnished image.
4. The tarnish of shame and guilt that enveloped her spread to him as well.
5. There was Sir Henry Ashton, who had to leave England with a tarnished name.
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Meanings and Examples of TARNISH
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tarnish
n. discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation
v. make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
Classic Sentence:
1 Edmond, my friend, do not compel me to tarnish that noble and pure image reflected incessantly on the mirror of my heart.
2 Elizabeth also wept and was unhappy, but hers also was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides but cannot tarnish its brightness.
3 The tarnish of shame and guilt that enveloped her spread to him as well.
4 But if these secret golden keys did seem to open in him his own secret golden treasuries, yet did his breath upon them prove but tarnishing.
5 In this case a tarnished, a spotted soul.
6 The tapestry hung down from the walls in many places, and in others was tarnished and faded under the effects of the sun, or tattered and decayed by age.
7 He had picked from a drawer a little tarnished cylinder, and, undoing the tape, he handed me a short note scrawled upon a half-sheet of slate-grey paper.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
Context Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
8 There was the huge Italian cassone, with its fantastically painted panels and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in which he had so often hidden himself as a boy.
9 His mere presence seemed to recall to them the memory of the innocence that they had tarnished.
10 There was Sir Henry Ashton, who had to leave England with a tarnished name.
11 "Neither ought nor shall be tarnished by circumstances over which he has had no control," Duncan warmly replied.
12 Already had his fair fame been tarnished by one horrid scene, and in circumstances fearfully resembling those under which he now found himself.
Example Sentence:
1 The air and days did tarnish these coins.
2 The party needs to clean up its somewhat tarnished image.
3 By this time a series of scandals had severely tarnished the leader's image/reputation.