4 sentences with “polished”

Granite is used both in the curbs of pavements and, well polished, to decorate the fronts of houses.

The exterior of this seashell was so incredibly polished that it looked as if someone had applied a thick coat of varnish.

Using only human labour power and no machines, the Inca built walls and buildings of polished stones, some weighing over fifty tons, that fit together perfectly without the use of mortar.

The red colour seems to be another hallucinogenic sensation transferred to the utensils. Of four polished stone pipes found in the Huachichocana CH III cave, on the edge of the Jujuy puna, three are made of red sandstone and two have traces of a bath with coloured pigments. The remaining one was made of andesite. The age and tubular shape of the pipes -without a vertical burner- is similar to those found in the other cave mentioned above.