Note: When isolated it is a soft, silver white metal, tarnishing and oxidizing very rapidly in the air.
Defn: A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air.
A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air buttarnishing in moist air.
When isolated it is a soft, silver white metal, tarnishing and oxidizing very rapidly in the air.
Death is everywhere, in the ugliness of what has been too long beautiful, in the tarnishing of what has been clean and pure, in the forgetfulness of what is long past, in daily habits, which are the forgetfulness of what is near.
All those tarnishing sayings, those careless, casual negations of what she had taken for axioms; that challenge to her whole life dropped from time to time as though it were an accepted commonplace with all intelligent beings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tarnishing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
