Sentence examples for we tarnished from inspiring English sources

After all those Bambino-cursed decades spent earning a real reputation for hard luck, we tarnished the legacy of dignified loserdom in one downward swoop, denouncing the team and foisting shame on the graves of our better forebears by becoming the most dreaded of dreadful sports-watchers: the fair-weather fan.

Even the studding that we used, we tarnished everything down.

Martin of FTheVote says yes. "How could we tarnish a system that's already so tarnished?" he asks.

But there is another Chechnya I remember, and want to leave you with it, lest we tarnish the whole nation.

In "I May Not Get There With You," Michael Eric Dyson argues that we have tarnished King's true legacy by translating it into a cliche.

"Only two of the players involved in the betting scandal were under contract for any length of time but we were tarnished with all six," reflects Robert Heys, Accrington's chief executive, who's also been known to double as the kit cleaner.

You know people really view the U.S. as the AAA, the gold standard, and I think we're tarnishing that".

You know people really view the U.S. as the AAA, the gold standard, and I think we're tarnishing that," Mr. Zandi said.

Perhaps icons become the more iconic for being chipped and tarnished; we prefer our heroes flawed.

"We talk of tarnished reputations, and while I'm not making work that's issue-based, the tarnish itself has its own built-in references," she says.

"We think the tarnished image of the United States under President Bush is now getting better," he said.