How to Use untarnished in a Sentence

untarnished

adjective

• The balloon is red and floats there, bright and untarnished, amid the rows of faded waste.
  — Andy Schatschneider, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2018
• Instead, all calls would be just, and fair, and the result would shine pure and untarnished as a result.
  — Will Leitch, Daily Intelligencer, 5 June 2018
• It was sliced clean off, leaving a patch of bright, untarnished metal.
  — Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Others chipped in for their slice of this untarnished paradise.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2019
• Their lives are so untarnished by the broader culture that to be with them is refreshing.
  — Kim Woodard Osterholzer, WSJ, 14 June 2018
• Of the three corporate players involved here, Anthem is the only one that comes out untarnished.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2021
• Though windows, doors and decorations were smashed and shattered, the stones still stood, stately and untarnished.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
• For untarnished jewelry, mix a few drops of mild dish detergent with warm water, and scrub with a soft-bristle toothbrush.
  — Amanda Greene, Woman's Day, 8 Mar. 2017
• For untarnished jewelry, mix a few drops of mild dish detergent with warm water, and scrub with a soft-bristle toothbrush.
  — Amanda Greene, Woman's Day, 8 Mar. 2017
• The results are private—something the authors do note—and so the Greens reputation remains untarnished.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 13 Oct. 2017
• And in a future when traditional networks are less important than untarnished brand names, that was a trade-off not worth making.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 29 May 2018
• Nowhere will be hit harder by Brexit than Dover, the port whose white cliffs are immortalized as untarnished bastions of purity in the hard-Brexiteers’ mind.
  — Isobel Thompson, vanityfair.com, 4 Apr. 2017
• Persuading an untarnished insider to flip against Trump would clearly be a breakthrough.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2021
• Gold’s allure remains as untarnished as the noble metal itself.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2015
• If Moro is no longer the untarnished paragon of civic virtue, he is seen by many supporters instead as the wily strategist working every angle—above board or subterranean, as needed—to block a Workers’ Party comeback.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2020
• So Meade, a man who has worked in Cabinet for presidents of two different parties, is stressing his own, relatively untarnished record.
  — Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
• This time last year, 2020 seemed an untarnished slate of glimmering possibility.
  — Sophie Wirt, Allure, 20 Dec. 2020
• Arrival The prestige/time-travel/monster movie was a huge hit, and earned director Denis Villeneuve another hit on his so-far untarnished streak of heady, satisfying movies that ask big questions.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 3 May 2018
• Of the 38 state champions who were crowned, an eye-popping 14 wrestlers — including Smith — finished with untarnished regular and postseason records at their respective weight classes between the three divisions.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2021
• So far, its reputation with shoppers has remained largely untarnished.
  — Marc Bain, Quartzy, 7 Nov. 2019
• His actions, in conjunction with those of Pam Nissler, the library’s executive director, amount to nothing less than censorship at a time when the nation can ill afford to censor one of its last untarnished democratic institutions.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2017
• But the truth is that violence against women has never been bad for business; in fact, there is much money to be made by collaborating, crediting, and hopping onto the often largely untarnished musical legacies of violent men.
  — Verónica Bayetti Flores, refinery29.com, 31 Oct. 2021
• The promise of figures like Gillibrand is that by transcending New York’s immoral political culture, they can also, unlike Schneiderman, become untarnished forces for reform.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 9 May 2018
• But after the government notched a nearly untarnished win streak of more than 80 insider-trading convictions, the Newman decision overturned two convictions and prompted the office to dismiss charges against several others.
  — Nicole Hong, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2017
• The link led to a meme generator loaded with photos of Cosby mugging in various poses and sweaters on BillCosby.com — all wholesome, charming, dad-like visuals reminiscent of Cosby’s untarnished reputation.
  — Longreads, 7 June 2019
• The area has lured people seeking a place of untarnished natural beauty with accessible outdoor activity—an antidote to Seattle that isn’t as full of vacationing Seattleites as many closer destinations.
  — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018

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