silvery
Example Sentences
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“It’s annoyingly heavy,” Tenev said at one point, flashing his silvery card.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
The statuesque Ms. Chapa wears a silvery unitard that bares her shoulders and arms to allow for winglike moments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
A few years ago, Mr Kim began to notice that the popular silvery hairtail fish he relied on were disappearing from local waters, and his earnings plunged by half.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025
Jeff Koons stood atop a construction lift and planted a small, silvery gray dudleya succulent on the nose of his monumental topiary sculpture “Split-Rocker” at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025
Having removed this impediment, and lifted certain silvery envelopes of tissue paper, she merely exclaimed—
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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