shiner

Example Sentences

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Her Moschino shiner had wings at the shoulders.

From Washington Times • May 3, 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

Lucroy has a small shiner under his right eye, his nose is slightly swollen and disjointed, “but I’m doing pretty good, considering,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2019

“And he was a shoe shiner, had a shoe shine stand downtown,” Eaton said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2018

The shiner had been a whole lot bigger and blacker a couple of days earlier, he said.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt