Sentence examples for dark shining from inspiring English sources

Males are dark shining green above with a glowing lighter green rump.

He went to the barn in the dark, shining the flashlight in front of him.

In contrast, the female is dark shining green above with a white median throat and underparts, and indistinct reddish, golden, and bluish spots on belly, flanks and undertail.

The commonest are quartz in small rounded grains, scales of colourless or pale-yellow mica (muscovite and phlogopite), dark shining flakes of graphite, iron oxides, and small crystals of pyrite.

Suddenly the book was a thing of black glitter, sequins in tar, its dark shining surface a reflection of its wildly tragicomic spirit, recalling the world of the Latin American fabulists I came of age loving.

Carey Mulligan carries with her gracefully the Daisy from Louisville days, making the past seem truly present, young and frail still, with the "dark shining hair" Gatsby first kissed now clearly dyed blonde (a perfect touch).

An almost indescribable fusion of dry reddish-blonde crept away to reveal deep, dark, shine.

I have chosen the latter because I so love the lines: "Walk between dark and dark – a shining space / With the grave's narrowness though not its peace".

It lies on the table between us, a solid thing with the taut, dark shine of a meteorite, for the winner to claim".

The girls, who resembled their father, were beautiful, all of them, and in the same way: hair that had a dark shine, lips the color of pimientos, eyes like sherry.

A couple of the dishes came into focus; a starter of pork cheeks, braised to a sweet, dark shine on a slick of puréed Jerusalem artichoke, and garnished with huge curls of puffy pork scratchings.