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Example sentences for "highly polished"

  • It attains a length of from four to six inches, and is so highly polished that a good specimen could be used as a mirror.

  • The white, enlarged outer lip is glazed or highly polished, and bluish or brown in color, with red spots.

  • It is porcelanous, highly polished, and shining like all shells which are covered by a portion of the mantle when the animal is extended.

  • At the right hand lay a highly polished mallet-head of gneiss, beautifully marked with dark and light streaks.

  • Within it were two urns, one of gray and the other of black pottery, both apparently filled only with earth, and beside them lay five studs or buttons of different sizes, formed of highly polished jet.

  • In the same barrow was a porphyry-slate pebble, highly polished, “the sides triangular and tapering towards the ends, which are rubbed flat.

  • Towards the butt-end some few of the facets and projections are, however, highly polished, but by friction only, as the surface is still uneven and not ground down.

  • The slightly translucent surface is highly polished, and the engraved lines are quite fresh looking.

  • This specimen is highly polished on the broader part of the back, and is evenly smoothed on the concave side.

  • It is eleven inches in length by seven in width at the widest part; the exterior surface is highly polished; the interior is less so, having suffered somewhat from decay; the beak is very long and slender, and has been used as a handle.

  • A good specimen from Cocke county, Tennessee, is of flint, one side rubbed flat, the other a rounded cone, highly polished.

  • These were evidently intended for scrapers; none are at all chipped or battered from use, and with very few exceptions the whole surface is highly polished.

  • One of the most important points to be attended to is that it should be highly polished, as grease would be more easily removed from it, and it would be cleaner.

  • Mine is as good as new, and as highly polished, and I have had it for years.

  • The best possible sink would be of real marble, highly polished; but the cost of this would preclude its use in our economical household.

  • From experiences of this kind I am led to infer that, in order to be most durable, the refractory button in the bulb should be in the form of a sphere with a highly polished surface.

  • There is bound to be some irregularity, even if the surface is highly polished, which, of course, is impossible with most of the refractory bodies employed as electrodes.

  • The sheet is wound tightly around the rod, and a highly polished tube of one or three layers of the sheet is obtained.

  • From experience, it is inferred, that to be most durable, the electrode should be in the form of a sphere with a highly polished surface.

  • Highly polished mahogany or oak case, with fancy moulding top and bottom; lock and key.

  • To print from these with good results the paper used must have a very smooth, highly polished surface.

  • Books are generally printed on paper which has not been very highly polished.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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