sheen
Example Sentences
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Apart from non-native speakers, there may be other subgroups of writers whose prose has the focus-grouped sheen of ChatGPT output.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
The aesthetic favors deliberate roughness and mistakes over a sterile, polished sheen.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 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
The strange sheen on their bark makes me want to hug the tree closest to me, but my arms would never reach around its stout trunk.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
Vocabulary lists containing sheen
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