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
• Just as paleontologists hunt for fossils in isolated caves and dry rift valleys, cosmologists have identified relatively untarnished parts of the universe where atomic nuclei have remained largely undisturbed since the earliest times.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2012

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