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    Use "sheen" in a sentence

    sheen example sentences

    sheen


    sheening


    sheens


    1. The Apple Locarno finish gave everything a reddish, almost transcendent sheen


    2. The ribbon of wet sheen running towards the horizon begged the driver of the Aston Martin to put his Cuban heeled boot through the floor, and he duly obliged


    3. reflected in the silk sheen of those


    4. It was a beautiful ivory carving; polished to a high sheen


    5. The lackluster sheen of his eyes made it was obvious that something was missing from the child -- and darkness took its place


    6. Her eyes were bruised and puffy and her skin had a grayish sheen to it


    7. Somehow, I expected her to be coated in slime, but instead she her skin was decorated with a golden sheen


    8. Your body has filled out to perfection and your hair glows with a lustrous sheen


    9. He was breathing hard and a slick sheen of sweat glistened on his face


    10. He was rather a large man dressed all in white, except for a long girdle with a silvery sheen

    11. Her skin was like parchment and the yellow sheen made it look worse the hair that had been a lustrous blonde was now thin dull and lifeless she held her arms out to me and they were like twigs and her face looked like a skull


    12. In sunlight and in moonlight, my cat wears the plush sheen of pussy willow


    13. She was sort of all the colors: gray, brown, black, and tan, with a blue sheen


    14. The poor lad doesn"t seem to have much of a sheen nowadays


    15. Nevertheless, I had a light sheen of sweat on my face, and my shirt was clinging to my back when I entered the air-conditioned Police house


    16. A man in camouflaged fatigues stood in the doorway, his swarthy face glinting with a light sheen of sweat, his hard eyes locked on Terry, along with the gun he carried


    17. He searched the bushes visually, and found what had to be it; a dark sheen visible through the barren branches and still-clinging autumn foliage


    18. The land had a sheen to it, probably from frost or at least a very heavy dew


    19. And Eileen seemed to be doing nothing at all, while I could clearly make out the reddish glow in Adele’s eyes, as well as the blinding sheen of the knife in her hand which was certainly pointed the wrong way, and was certainly past the ‘I’m just fucking with you’ range


    20. The moon was full, and its light cast a silvery sheen over everything, except perhaps cow dung

    21. Faint bluish crackles of light like tiny lightnings and sparks of light coursed through the Patriarch, his bald scalp having taken on an eerie sheen as if it had suddenly transformed into a shiny metal mirror


    22. The swordsmen were up and about ready to be called into action, their longswords a mirror sheen, their chain-mails and helmets a steely dull gray


    23. He had stopped in mid air with a silver sheen suddenly adorning the wispy air around his leg and knee, as if an invisible wall stood on each side of the gangway


    24. She then studied him more closely: it was cool in the room due to Jesus’ delight with air conditioning, yet a sheen of perspiration glistened his skin, his face was ashen and the bottle of quinine in his hand trembled


    25. His breastplate was polished to a mirror sheen, reflecting wildly the terrible forms of his men clad in their huge plate armor, like moving unyielding hulks of metal


    26. It had a dull olive-green sheen, reminiscent of mould


    27. Her eyes are dark, with the same sheen as a puddle of oil beneath a leaking engine


    28. through the sheen of the crystal


    29. face; she was banging on the sheen, flaky surface


    30. Oh, that room was grand with wood so shiny, it looked like a glass sheen over its surface

    31. I have a fine cut throat razor that I bought at an old farm house auction many years ago, and when I feel sad, I take it out and sheen it to perfection


    32. The attendant went to one of the racks and brought back a uniform made of a light, black material with a slight sheen to it


    33. while this is occurring, there is a subjective experience of a reddish sheen


    34. rate of closure is uneven there could be a red or a blue sheen On complete


    35. “The monk looked around him, the tiny room was scarcely illuminated by the sheen of a candle, and books spread by all corners were projecting their silhouettes enlarged on the ungraceful stucco of the clay walls, silent witnesses of the thousands of minutes that the clergyman had dedicated to the study of the magic


    36. The library was smaller than the one in Coermantyr Castle but many of the tomes and scrolls glistened with a sheen that bespoke of recent research and experimentation


    37. Like watching a home movie through someone else’s eyes and every time he pressed play on the memory, another sheen of Vaseline was added to the lens


    38. By the end of the second day Antony declared he’d never felt better, reckoned didn’t give a stuff about his hair loss and new metallic sheen, and wondered how he could ever repay his tall, dark, lithe and handsome saviour


    39. Her body glowed with a reflective silver sheen


    40. Her eyes were snared by that unholy sheen,

    41. A faint sheen of sweat was on his face


    42. The crimson cloud balanced like a spinning top for an instant, whirling in a dazzling sheen on its point


    43. her skin of ivory glowed with a silky sheen


    44. His left hand gripped the sorcerer's girdle as a drowning man grips a floating log, and the long knife was a sheen of light in his right


    45. In the flash there had been briefly disclosed to them a slim white figure standing upright in a sheen of silk and a glint of jewel-crusted gold


    46. The starlight was a long sheen on the great two-handed sword he bore naked in his hand


    47. with the sheen after rain


    48. There was a steady stream of common cars — Polos, Nissans, nothing out of the ordinary: cars I'd see every day on the streets of London — but they were interspersed at an absurd ratio with BMWs, Mercedes and Porsches, the sheen of their metal gleaming flawlessly beneath the blistering sun


    49. Did send a dismal sheen:


    50. The material was similar in texture to cotton, but with a sheen that was like silk














































    1. They were the rich, sheening, shallow black of a dead fly’s wings, and under the lids there were sharp little lines


    1. Light was at a premium, its sources the by-products of the industrious machines: sparks like lightning, hot rivers of metal, red and yellow fires and blue-hot flames; green and violet beams of light against stark gray metals, the mirror sheens of gleaming new surfaces reflecting everything, multiplying their intensity in a maze of light


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    Synonyms for "sheen"

    luster lustre sheen shininess shine glaze polish

    "sheen" definitions

    the visual property of something that shines with reflected light