Example sentences for: polish

How can you use “polish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some, like French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, had more in common with one another than they did with, say, German, English, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch, which, in turn, bore only a remote resemblance to Russian and Polish, on the one hand, and the two extant varieties of, say, Gaelic, on the other.

  • Toys, comic books, nail polish, and jewelry.

  • On almost a weekly basis, we were humiliated by teams of Polish, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian extraction whose members had been playing since just after birth.

  • Similarly, unless you heard them spoken you might not recognize ajskrym, erebeta , and kontaklinser as, respectively, Polish for ice cream , Japanese for elevator , and Swedish for contact lenses . The champion of this dissembling process must surely be the Italian sciacchenze , which is simply a literal rendering of the English shake hands , although the Swahili word for a traffic island, kiplefti ( keep left ) runs it a close second.

  • Are you reacting to all the blue nail polish, body piercings, spiky hair, and nose rings?


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