Sentence examples for polished him off from inspiring English sources

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It showed in the easily demonstrable lies he told, it showed in the drinking that polished him off at only 48, it showed in his patronage of the odious if preposterous Roy Cohn and his boyfriend David Schine, whose cavorting around Europe made a laughingstock of America and much aided the Communist cause.

For 20 years in the 19th century it was politically incorrect, since it treated its Tsar as a ninny and polished him off in a vat of boiling water.

Both he and Spitzer readily concede that it was the former governor who did himself in; he haplessly provided the guns and ammo that polished him off.

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Unless he persuaded someone to polish him off with a pillow over the head.

The first time I went out to dinner with him, we polished off a plate of ham — pata negra, the really good Spanish stuff — while he rubbed the fat of each piece on his lips to savor the texture as well as the flavor and, of course, instructed me and everyone else at the table to do the same.

As he polished off a generous portion of kippers, I sat awkwardly beside him.

"Polished off," someone jokes later.

She polished off the cheesecake.

Edrich polished off two glasses.

I usually polished off two or three.

On Sunday, she said, the customers polished off three.

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