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 best we can tell, a 19-year-old African American shoe shiner named Dick Rowland tripped as he entered the elevator in the Drexel Building.

From Washington Post • May 28, 2021

For decades, white and black Tulsans refused to talk about the events of May 31, 1921, when a black man who worked as a shoe shiner was accused of assaulting a white woman.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2020

The kids would surely call her “a shiner of apples for teacher’s dog” next.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord