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Six example sentences with tarnish, each labelled with its topic.
A conservator lifted the tarnish from the silver chalice with a cotton swab, revealing an engraved date underneath.
Art
Boiled eggs leave a gray tarnish on good spoons, which is why grandmother kept a separate set for breakfast.
Cooking
Brass players polish away the tarnish before a recital, though the greenish film returns within a fortnight of humid weather.
Music
Silver tarnish is a thin layer of silver sulfide, formed when the metal reacts with traces of sulfur in the air.
Science
Coins from the shipwreck came up black with tarnish, and only careful cleaning revealed the emperor's face and a date.
History
Old daguerreotypes develop a halo of tarnish near the edges, which conservators leave alone rather than risk the image.
Photography
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