sheen

Example Sentences

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The aesthetic favors deliberate roughness and mistakes over a sterile, polished sheen.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

Perth and Kinross Council said there had been no reports of any sightings of fuel sheen in the River Tay or Loch Tay since Saturday afternoon.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

Later, the counter began to crowd with flaky croissants, sticky pastry, brioches with amber sheen.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026

Ms. McCracken refuses to link process and outcome in fiction, so the whole endeavor retains its mysterious sheen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Michael had woken up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and had seen Ridge asleep, a sheen of sweat on his forehead, with his thumb resting on the scanner.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly