sheen

To emphasize the ghoulishness, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki shoots the president and his advisors in unflattering low angles with a formaldehyde sheen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

What was once tucked into corners of the internet is now visible just beneath the sheen of any social media algorithm.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

Greenpeace said the oil sheen had expanded from up to 20 square kilometres on July 24 to an estimated 600 on August 4, according to satellite imagery it reviewed.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

And “My Way,” about a backstabbing girl who crossed a line with Ms. Rodrigo’s boyfriend, is pop-punk with a new-wave sheen, a combination of sounds that brings to mind Paramore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

He thought he could see opaque tendrils of steam rolling off the very trees in wispy sighs, slicking their arms, legs, and foreheads in a sheen of sticky sweat.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Visit a traditional national-brand paint store and you’ll discover that urethane exterior house paints can be purchased in any color and different sheens.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

The volume of oil spilled has not been determined, but activists have published images of polluted farmland, water surfaces blighted by oil sheens and dead fish mired in sticky crude.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

In astronomy, iconic images, like the “pillars of creation” or a black hole’s event horizon, are beautiful and awe-inspiring, but what we see is essentially made of numbers rather than imperceptibly sheer sheens of paint.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 16, 2022

Because some paints can be used on a variety of surfaces, they may be available in a wider range of sheens.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2022

It was crow colored—black, but with petrol sheens of green and purple and deep blue—but the underside of its wings was red.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

In the salons I went to as a child, I remember men peddling bootlegged movies and fashions to the clients with their hair wrapped or freshly sheened as they dug for cash in their purses.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

Sparkling catsuits sheened like the shiny slug trails left in the forest at dawn.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2021

And that would force us to confront our bodies as they really are; not the buffed, sheened perfection of youth, but the bumps, wrinkles and dry patches of middle age.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 20, 2019

Def Leppard sold tons of records, back when musicians used to do that, with a heavy metal sound sheened to pop perfection on songs like “Photograph” and “Pour Some Sugar on Me.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2019

The train rolled past scrap and recycling yards, men and women’s backs sheened mirror bright with sweat as they stacked hand carts with purchased scrap and moved it to weighing platforms for sale.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

The sweat sheening Kendrick’s forehead minutes into the show.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022

Crews working to replace steep plate walls had noticed light sheening, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2022

There was minimal sheening seen near the Juneau-Douglas Bridge, said Bressler, and the Coast Guard and DEC will monitor it over the weekend.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 14, 2015

Added Mr. Stone: “We were just sheening our heads off.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2011

She is next to him, sitting back on her heels, hands folded in her lap, her dark kimono sheening in the half light, and gazing at him the way she did this afternoon, steadily, intently.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston