1. The brasswork needs polishing it's badly tarnished.

2. His regime was tarnished by human rights abuses.

3. The party needs to clean up its somewhat tarnished image.

4. The mirrors had tarnished with age.

5. The mirror had tarnished quite badly.

6. The silver candlesticks were tarnished and dusty.

7. Accusations of tax evasion have tarnished his clean image.

8. The political scandal tarnished the reputation of the president.

9. His reputation has tarnished in literary circles.

10. The silver spoon tarnished.

11. His bad behaviour has tarnished the good name of the school.

12. He says he wants to improve the tarnished image of his country.

13. He hopes to improve the newspaper's somewhat tarnished public image.

14. The firm's good name was badly tarnished by the scandal.

15. Neighbors' testimony tarnished Wilson's image as a loving mother.

16. Tarnished metal shone through his musculature as he walked through the fire.

17. The most common method of cleaning tarnished silver-plated cutlery is to use specially formulated cleaning fluids in which the cutlery is immersed.

18. The latter needed a polish, having become tarnished and covered with verdigris.

19. In the left-hand pocket he found two tarnished coins of a kind he'd never seen before.

20. But turning around such a tarnished image will not be easy.

21. If you don't want your image tarnished, chase your tail before you get into serious trouble.

22. It was a glass ball in aged, tarnished gold; a decoration for a Christmas tree.

23. He wore a tarnished gold watch chain across his waistcoat.

24. His memory may have been tarnished over the previous decade with the acknowledgement of his serious policy errors.

25. By this time a series of scandals had severely tarnished the leader's image/reputation.

26. His professional reputation as a respected real estate expert also has been tarnished, the suit alleges.

27. I wanted it to shine the windows and polish the tarnished feelings like a good spring house-cleaning.

28. Profits at auto makers and other exporters could be tarnished by a weaker dollar against the yen.

28. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

29. Even the doorbell was wrong, a black button encircled by a tarnished yellow metal.

30. Blood from his torn ear was soaking his left epaulette with its tarnished chains and gilded eagle.

1. His regime was tarnished by human rights abuses.

2. The party needs to clean up its somewhat tarnished image.

31. Its hanging brass handles were damaged and tarnished, its once polished top ruined by years of misuse.

32. Your popularity might be tarnished, but now you have conferred on your people the gift of a nation in the making.

33. And then came a knight in tarnished armour, a veritable giant amongst singer-songwriters from Barking.

34. As so often, local bureaucrats have been protected by national bureaucrats who fear that they will be tarnished by association.

35. Duke Ellington and Count Basie also tarnished their reputations by recording brassy versions of Beatle tunes.

36. But Leon didn't let go, rubbing at the coat's tarnished silver button.

37. For Richard Burnell, the Olympic spirit of 1948 has been tarnished by the passage of time.

38. He stared into his own reflection in the tarnished mirror at the back of the counter.

39. It does not wholly undermine the principle though it does leave it somewhat tarnished.

40. This reputation could be tarnished if adequate steps are not taken to control the rodent population.

41. In his view, this produced better results because the companies wished to avoid their respectability being tarnished.

42. Then the day went black, except for a tarnished band of light along the horizon.

43. It was upon them that the legal profession focussed in the early 1970s in an attempt to improve its tarnished public image.

44. Her honour is tarnished, her home life shattered, her future uncertain.

45. But I saw torches moving, less powerful than lighted matches against the first crack of tarnished gold in the eastern sky.

46. The promise of town planning itself was tarnished in this context.

47. The glass was so tarnished they could hardly be deciphered.

48. His reputation has been tarnished by their slanders.

49. The enamel gives new brass an authentically tarnished finish.

50. His image as a good student was badly tarnished.

51. The scandal tarnished his reputation.

52. His image was tarnished by the savings and loan scandal.

53. Mr Jia, 67, has survived despite being tarnished by a corruption scandal during his time as party boss in Fujian province in the 1990s.

54. Nagoya, Japan: Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda bows at a news conference after apologising for a massive global recall that has tarnished the reputation of the world's largest car maker.

55. The reasons why the silver alloys tarnished are analyzed briefly.

56. So far so miraculous. Yet the shiny face has a tarnished flip side.

57. Mr Saakashvili an impetuous nationalist who has lately tarnished his democratic credentials.

58. I looked down at the shiny piece of glass and the tarnished golden chain, then back at the giver.http://

59. The image I portray and the example I set becomes tarnished.

60. Despite his fame, Jeffrey Amherst s name became tarnished by stories of smallpox-infected blankets used as germ warfare against American Indians.

61. Estranged lover tarnished each melody when all my revealed affections were overturned.

62. Over the west hung the wasting moon, now dull and greenish - yellow, like tarnished brass.

63. His reputation was tarnished.

64. Probably not for fear that his immaculate image would be tarnished and he wouldn't sell as many Air Jordan's, but then again, he never had to.

65. The Chinese insist that sport must not be tarnished by politics (as opposed to commercial advertising).

66. Mr Saakashviliis an impetuous nationalist who has lately tarnished his democraticcredentials.

67. Ironically, it is these mawkish , calcified heads that have tarnished the sculptor's reputation.

68. The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air.

69. Gold electrodeposit as top coating of artificial jewelry made of copper and copper alloy tarnished because of copper diffusion to gold top deposit.

70. Today the concept has been somewhat tarnished by its abuse in Nazi and Soviet art policy.