shininess

Example Sentences

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There are aromatherapy brands, and products focused on shininess, and specific coat color.

From Slate • Sep. 30, 2023

The works themselves, in the meantime, for all their shininess, look as lifeless as ash.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2022

Their shininess is a vital protection from the sun’s intense UV radiation.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2019

For locals, the plaques function as collective memory prompts — boldly insisting, in all their blue shininess, that great people did great things here, even if that particular “here” has long since lost its significance.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2016

Translucency, though, as I have said above, a dangerous temptation, is, in its place, beautiful; but lustre, or shininess, is always, in painting, a defect.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John