Sentence examples for shininess from inspiring English sources

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shininess

noun

The visual property of something shining with reflective light; shine

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Asian airlines also dominated Skytrax's recent airline rankings.Incheon opened in 2001, so still has some of the shininess of youth.

(The bull's nose, horns, and testicles have been rubbed, for luck, to more or less identical degrees of shininess).

Scientific housekeeping, with its standards of spotlessness and shininess, was founded on no less a fudge than the forty-seven and a half tons of pig iron.

Default strips the shininess of sovereignty — "That's what would happen to you if you made those decisions; well, the same is true for the federal government".

Still, I'm perplexed about why we consider luridness, shininess, wrinkliness and flawedness — to the extent that a person manifests these qualities — the features that are most deeply our own.

Here you have ballpoint masters like Il Lee, whose abstract "BL-120" (2011) uses the pen's minute hatching capabilities, as well as the shininess of its ink, to full effect; or Bill Adams, whose neo-Surrealist drawings center on furry Cyclops-cube-forms.

It's basically last year's iPhone 5 but with a plastic body (lacquered for extra shininess!), available in five colors.

"It has a certain stiffness and shininess, and as a designer I would normally use it for sharp tailoring.

In the case of the Infiniti Q50 customized by Thom Browne, the fashion designer, the car's shininess is literal as well as figurative.

And the nose of the redhead of "Trim" reflects the blue-on-blue dots of her dress, subtly implying a certain shininess.

It is a sad and brilliant paragraph, compassionate in its noticing – especially the "vague" polishing of shoes by men who had once been in jobs where shininess of shoe mattered – and respectful of these brigades of broken men who walked the landscape, but who often fall out of the headier accounts of life on the path.

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