shiner

Example Sentences

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Depp said a photo Heard’s team had procured from the Orient Express Facebook page — which didn’t show the shiner — looked “like my eyes have been Photoshopped.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2022

Her Moschino shiner had wings at the shoulders.

From Washington Times • May 3, 2022

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

“That’s quite a shiner you’ve got there,” he said lightly.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx