SHINY in a Sentence
Learn SHINY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
24 example sentences for SHINY, such as:
1. And he wiped his shiny forehead.
2. She slipped on the shiny floor and fell.
3. One uv 'em is white en shiny, en t'other one is black.'
4. It was wrapped in shiny, green paper with a purple bow.
5. Guns and churns and barrels of nails and beautiful shiny butcher knives.
2. She slipped on the shiny floor and fell.
3. One uv 'em is white en shiny, en t'other one is black.'
4. It was wrapped in shiny, green paper with a purple bow.
5. Guns and churns and barrels of nails and beautiful shiny butcher knives.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SHINY
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shiny
a. reflecting light
a. having a shiny surface or coating
Classic Sentence:
1 It was only his appearance that was a little altered; his hide was less shiny than it had used to be, and his great haunches seemed to have shrunken.
2 He walked just before her in the narrow path, swinging the hurricane lamp low, revealing the wet grass, the black shiny tree-roots like snakes, wan flowers.
3 The man who had knocked at the door, was a stout personage of middle height, aged about fifty: with shiny black hair, cropped pretty close; half-whiskers, a round face, and sharp eyes.
4 He shot a questioning glance at each of us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair.
5 With his collar turned up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he was a perfect sample of the class.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
Context Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
6 My companion ordered him to wait, and had his hand upon the knocker, when the door opened and a grave young gentleman in black, with a very shiny hat, appeared on the step.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
7 It was a new carriage, shiny with varnish, and the harness was new too, with bits of polished brass here and there.
8 Guns and churns and barrels of nails and beautiful shiny butcher knives.
9 Inside, it was as shiny, as hard, and as cheerful as a new oak upright piano.
10 When the snow was too deep for his motor he went off on country calls in a shiny, floral, steel-tipped cutter, only his ruddy nose and his cigar emerging from the fur.
11 One uv 'em is white en shiny, en t'other one is black.'
12 Every night we passed towns, some of them away up on black hillsides, nothing but just a shiny bed of lights; not a house could you see.
13 But Mr Gleeson had round shiny cuffs and clean white wrists and fattish white hands and the nails of them were long and pointed.
14 And he wiped his shiny forehead.
15 The left side of the forest was dark in the shade, the right side glittered in the sunlight, wet and shiny and scarcely swayed by the breeze.
Example Sentence:
1 Although he carried, under his wig, a perfectly bald and shiny head, he had only reached middle age.
2 When she arrives at the north London studio for her interview and photo-shoot, she is so clean and shiny it is as though she has been freshly dipped in varnish.
3 One of the benefits of using graphite is that it keeps the silver from oxidizing, so bullets come out bright and shiny.
4 It was wrapped in shiny, green paper with a purple bow.
5 Avoid pans with a shiny, reflective base as the heat will be reflected back.
6 In summer, especially lush vegetation, holly leaves shiny shiny, elm tree with luxuriant foliage, give people put up a thick green shade.
7 She slipped on the shiny floor and fell.
8 The world's media will descend, Google will be clogged by searching fans and from the middle of the scrum a few shiny objects will emerge – a pair of phones, a couple of tablets and, probably, two watches.
9 Arvind Mahankali slayed the German language that has bedeviled him for so many years by correctly spelling “knaidel”; the confetti popped, cameras snapped and Arvind was handed the huge, shiny trophy.