sheen

Example Sentences

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Anytime the film veers into computer-generated territory, it takes on a sheen of cheesy artifice.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

And they may be losing some of their sheen.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 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

The film honors maturity and all its weighty deliberations without putting a sheen of sentimentality on the condition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Glerk came lumbering out of the swamp, the dark waters shedding in great beads from the oily sheen of his darker skin.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill