Burnished used in a sentence

Burnished in a sentence as an adjective

I am not quite sure why. I have never claimed all products need to be finished to the point of "burnished wood knobs".

Proing-up and being good at what you do doesn't mean you need to put burnished wood knobs on your software.

But the skills that have let me get those jobs were burnished in research labs in the CS department.

As hooks puts it, "the love of a father is an uncommon gem, to be hunted, burnished, and hoarded.

Same here, but from IBM--and it's burnished my impression of the company ever since.

Looks like a gnome-shell clone with burnished aluminum frames.

The year since may have burnished their memory and left me with overly high expectations for this one.

The previously highly-aggregated content of television/radio now seems to have a sort of burnished nostalgic glow.

Implicitly any reference to the writings of Plato is burnished by the image of "wisdom of the ancients," so it is worth considering the flaws of these philosophers' work.

Google search is among mankind's greatest achievements in the past century, along with the free gifts of quality email, youtube, android, etc. It is an interesting thought experiment of how to keep a brand burnished in the eyes of the public given goodwill decays so rapidly.

A large portion of the intelligence community’s experts on the military capabilities and plans of Russia and China joined government during the Reagan administration; other experts on counterterrorism and new technology burnished their technical skills following the Sept.

I really don't like the Hollywood-style of describing the work on the fields: "But then, in another light, you see the tools of violence being carried into the fields: the steel crowbar, the ranga, for making holes in the earth, the axe with its bright and burnished edge, the cleft oak posts, the ****, the hedge slashers – all the instruments with which management can be imposed.