His face struck Noel suddenly as tarnished and almost sullen.
To fail him in these ways would have tarnished her opinion of herself.
And the thought that he had been spying at their little house tarnished her anticipations of homecoming.
She had tarnished his shield in the eyes of men; and (for she was oddly practical, and saw things in very clear proportion) perhaps put back his career, who knew how many years!
We are sure that you cannot have taken counsel in this matter with your wife, who would neither have liked to see her brother injured, nor the fair fame of her husband tarnished by such doubtful intrigues.
He wore a red kerchief tied around his head and over it a cocked hat, edged with tarnished gilt braid.
Nor did pirating differ from this general rule, for in it were men who rose to distinction, men whose names, something tarnished and rusted by the lapse of years, have come down even to us of the present day.
He wore a coat that had once been of fine plum color--now stained and faded--too small for his lean length, and furbished with tarnished lace.
It was an extremely neat room, and by day, when the bed was disguised as a sofa, and the washstand closed, there was nothing to reveal that it served as a bedroom, although a tarnished old mirror hung in a dark corner.
When she had found it, Milly was standing before the high chimney-piece, over which hung a long, low mirror about a foot wide and divided into three parts by miniature pilasters of tarnished gilt.
It was streaking her breast with verdigris as if in some way prophetick of a heart that all too soon would be tarnished more irreparably by that faithless lover beyond the seas.
Shall damask flowers lose their beauty, shall silver lace betarnished and broideries lack lustre because Ripple has commanded the impossible?
I sit in a library hung with faded rose brocades andtarnished silver broideries.
Suspicion, no matter whence the source, has irrevocably tarnished the brightness of his idol.
A man of your age can easily find a wife, but can never restore lustre to a tarnished name.
He wore an old, tightly fitting army coat of Union blue, bearing tarnished gold epaulets upon the shoulders, and around his throat a red bandanna handkerchief was wrapped closely to keep out the "chills.
Bending over in his old blue army coat with the tarnished epaulets, he prodded the pile of leaves, where the scented smoke hung low in a cloud.
No jay or magpie ever suffered here the penalty of evil deeds or tarnished reputation.
He had served in the conquest of Peru from the first, and no name on the roll of its conquerors is less tarnished by the reproach of cruelty, or stands higher in all the attributes of a true and valiant knight.
The laurels he had won in the field against brave men in arms, like himself, were tarnished by cruelty towards his defenceless captives.
The same; the Marquis de Nipernois, to whose daughter he was once betrothed, and whose fair fame and name he has tarnished forever!
Who knows every flaw and crack of reputation, every damaged character, and every tarnished fame, as I do?
And when, in fact, the grant of a sum of money was voted by Parliament, the splendor of the gift was sadly tarnished by the discussion that accompanied it!
There were the same old guineas in the wooden bowl, the same tarnished tankards and teapots on view behind the wire-guarded glass, the same obscure hints of untold riches within, in the general aspect of the place.
Luke Tulliver handed him the books and keys of the cases in which the tarnished plate was exhibited.
The silversmith's shop looked exactly the same as when he had first seen it: the gas burning dimly, the tarnished old salvers and tankards gleaming duskily in the faint light, with all manner of purple and greenish hues.
Next, an old and tarnished silver case is brought out from the other side of the same closet.
Modest, clever, sympathetic, healthful, none of the stains of the town had ever tarnished her mind.
Her counter was richly carved with many strange devices, and the carvings were covered with tarnished gold.
This barbarous order was put into execution, and tarnished his victory.
It remained for modern writers, after a lapse of centuries, to stigmatize the command as an act of barbarity, and to represent it as having tarnished and stained the victory of him who gave it.
At the period of which we write, about both was visible an air of neglect--like a painting that has hung unheeded against the wall, tilltarnished by dust and time.
What did it matter if people talked--what was a tarnished reputation to set against a man's life?
Curtains of old purple velvet wrought with Bourbon lilies of tarnished gold hung on either side, and from their midst the King seemed looking on them as in a vision.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tarnished" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
