shiner

Example Sentences

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Anthony Davis has a shiner, and things just got heavier.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2024

With a welt near his ear and a shiner under one eye, umpire Junior Valentine worked the plate right on schedule.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2021

“The truth is that here as the poor people that we are, we don’t understand that,” José Lopez, 81, a shoe shiner in San Salvador, said before the national Bitcoin adoption.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2021

Crappie continue to improve, especially shiner and will be found in brush piles.

From Washington Times • Oct. 30, 2019

The shiner had been a whole lot bigger and blacker a couple of days earlier, he said.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt