shiner
Example Sentences
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Depp said a photo Heard’s team had procured from the Orient Express Facebook page — which didn’t show the shiner — looked “like my eyes have been Photoshopped.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022
“The truth is that here as the poor people that we are, we don’t understand that,” José Lopez, 81, a shoe shiner in San Salvador, said before the national Bitcoin adoption.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
The massacre was sparked by the arrest of Dick Rowland, 19, a Black shoe shiner who was accused of assault against Sarah Page, 17, a white elevator operator.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2021
The best we can tell, a 19-year-old African American shoe shiner named Dick Rowland tripped as he entered the elevator in the Drexel Building.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2021
The kids would surely call her “a shiner of apples for teacher’s dog” next.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
