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sheeny

[shee-nee] / ˈʃi ni /


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Its pink-and-green neon parrot sign lit the way to some of the most satisfying chili cheese fries I’ve ever eaten: crinkle-cut potatoes, sheeny Velveeta-yellow cheese sauce, chili ladled from a mini-crockpot in the back.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2025

So: The sharp, sheeny person doing step-and-repeats at the Tonys?

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

Di Felice used the runway to bring fashion forward twists — snipaways, toggles, sheeny space materials and deconstruction — on everyday items such as a denim jacket, denim skirt or flared pants.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

Thus, exaggeratedly oversize berets mixed with clashing-color prints on silk, standout loose wool coats in maize, printed silk neck scarves, chunky sheeny leather loafers, and high-waisted chino pants.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2022

The ladies were like Fairy dreams, in stiff, brocaded-silks, sheeny satins, ribbons, lace, jewels, and necklaces of gold, amber, and medallions—round stones with faces cut on them.

From Maid Sally by Harriet A. Cheever

In due time Sophia was delivered of a child, which the midwives examined and found to be a girl with a face sheenier than the moon.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

It was triumph and victory and paean in action to go flashing along over this footing, smoother than polished marble and sheenier than first-water gems.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 by Various

O thou sheeniest Sun who in night dost shine!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

O thou sheeniest Sun who m night dost shine, viii.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton




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