shiner

Example Sentences

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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

Crappie are fair to slow on mostly jigs or live shiner.

From Washington Times • Oct. 30, 2019

In the week since being knocked unconscious in a home plate collision in Houston, Angels catcher Jonathan Lucroy has walked around sporting a shiner and spoken as though plagued by a cold.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 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