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

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

A sheen of drool appeared on Beowulf’s lower lip, and Alexander made a soft buck-buck-bucking noise under his breath.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood