The stones become polished but are irregular in shape.
My father wanted me to come to Princeton and become polished.
After two years, the story of Mubarak's fall had become polished, like a stone that's passed through many hands.
In religion, affluence helped tame doctrinaire fury into debonair moderation; Edinburgh ministers became polished and even elegant figures who wrote poetry and appeared at fashionable dinner parties and clubs.
When the remnant DLC becomes smaller than the amplitude of the peaks on the steel surface, the steel and the Cr adhesion layer become polished, causing the peaks to be eliminated, as well as the imperfections present in the subsurface.
Out of hundreds of melodic and rhythmic fragments, one or two will become polished songs, either for Sabath to put out under his own name or for a bigger star to rerecord.
"Unlike a lot of pros who become polished, Johnny never forgot where he came from," said Steve Garcia, the owner of Power and Glory Gym, a training center here for young women who box.
Station employees have become polished marketers, touting a growing list of pledge merchandise to public television's core audience -- over 50 and affluent, largely ignored by advertisers and especially, by the music industry.
Somewhere on the way from Watergate to Zippergate, members of the press -- once the embodiment of tattered, inky credibility, their integrity magnified by their degree of frumpishness -- have become polished, sparkling, talking television heads, deft with a stick of pancake makeup and savvy about sitting on the tails of their suits.
