How To Use Sheen In A Sentence

Rosheen watched as Postine came into view on the big screen, her massive frame picked out in infra-red against the night.
Since then thousands of artists have tried to bottle up its bright metallic sheen for themselves. The Sun
Metallic tiles are fashionable right now, and these patterned designs will add a luxurious sheen to walls and floors. Times, Sunday Times
It was a garden with trees of freshest green and ripe fruits of yellow sheen; and its birds were singing clear and keen and nils ran wimpling through the fair terrene. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Down the spiral path of the pit they bore him, encircling the sheening, glowing Red One that seemed ever imminent to iridesce from colour and light into sweet singing and thunder. THE RED ONE

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Dean has most of the Hollywood glamour; both Martin Sheen and Rob Reiner were here stumping for him in recent days.
Everything spread out again: the bridges with their arches opening upon the sheeny water; the Cite, enveloped in shade, above which rose the flavescent towers of Notre-Dame; the great curve of the right bank flooded with sunlight, and ending in the indistinct silhouette of the His Masterpiece
In the grainy black and white photo I can still make out the sheen of A.'s hair oil and the way he slicked his dark locks back on the sides.
Trinidadians are said by Creoles to be ethnically ‘mixed-up’ like callaloo, a kind of soup made from dasheen leaves and containing crab.
My skin was left soft with a subtle sheen - and the price is brilliant. Times, Sunday Times
And when day-break dawned and the star of morn appeared in sheen and shone, he broke up the sitting and, dismissing the youths, donned his court-dress and leaving his house set out for the palace of the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Ruth Sheen was relieved to complete filming on 'taskmaster' Mike Leigh's latest film Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
An ai nawt onna a ‘steem driben’ masheen enny moar, eever! YOUR CAT HAS ISSUES - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Beneath that sheen of hard-earned respectability, however, were unredeemed sins.
The clouds were lowering, with a coppery sheen that seemed to justify the Canon's warning. UNTO THE GRAVE
Adoro Michael Sheen é um ator de expressões e papéis fortes o que deu a saga uma nova cara apesar de sua participação ter sido em uma pequena parte do filme na minha opinião foram uma das melhores partes. Michael Sheen: Interview with 'New Moon' star on fitting in with the cast | EW.com
But Kirsteen, quite unused to beautiful manufactured things, admired them all, and found a pleasure in heaping together and contrasting with each other the soft silken stuffs, many of them with a sheen of two blended colours called "shot" in those days. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
Sheen certainly makes a better president than the current boofhead, and this series does a good job of hinting at what life's like inside the White House.
It left a subtle, glossy sheen. Times, Sunday Times
The sheen of her black feathers overwhelms the shine of the moon.
Think of heavy metals infused with pigment and sheen like the patina of rich auto exteriors and you've nailed the right color for your next manicure.
It attempts to provide a positive cultural sheen to this crisis, re-presenting the lack of common identity as a new cultural pluralism, and the fragmentation of communities as an enriching kind of diversity.
The announcement comes as somewhat of a surprise after The Office creator and UK series star delivered a hard-hitting monologue last year that included zingers aimed at Hugh Hefner, Charlie Sheen, the cast of Sex and the City 2 and Scientologists. Who Will He Offend This Year? Ricky Gervais to Host Golden Globes Again
The product, at the end of the day, is a very literary, heavy on style monkeyism, story which might just have a thin sheen of SF patina on it. How Can Science Fiction Magazines Be Successful in the Digital Age?
Peter Sheen, Ireland's only professional coin and medal expert, will be on hand throughout the day to value coins, postcards, photographs and many other collectable items.
It has a slight sheen and a defined twill line, and can be dyed any color, including indigo.
And the perfumed balm inside does feel silky to the touch, giving a subtle sheen. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps the best amalgamation of Kahane's effectively intricate arrangements and the newly acquired electric guitar sheen occurs on "Last Dance," a melancholic portrait of a new widow, or perhaps an abandoned lover "She takes her bundle of pills, she poaches her egg and eats it/And feels his slight impression like crushed pillows hold the shape of a body after nights of sleep and shadows". Daniel J. Kushner: After Aesthetics: Gabriel Kahane's Where Are The Arms
“Bu shi an shen yu xin” pronounced boo shr ahn shun yü sheen means do not see polluted things to make your shen reside peacefully in your heart. Tao II
Linen, always a staple for summer, is blended with synthetics like rayon and polyester to add sheen and reduce wrinkling.
Exportscommodities: bananas 39%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch; tennis racquets Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
This will remove shine, leaving you with a slightly iridescent sheen. The Sun
So when all 60 of us were going off to university or college or to a job, we vowed that nothing would change and left blessed with the sheen of invincibility, yearbooks tucked under untucked shirts, without looking back.
Ummm… wai duz da hooman have baff masheen fillded wiff foam bawl pit in da furst place? curious kittehs wanna no. Video: Kitteh vs. Styrofoam Balls - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Farmers said consumers were complaining about the sharp increase in prices for items like plantain, cassava and dasheen, but part of the problem was the difficulty they had in getting to the farms to get the produce out.
Exportscommodities: bananas 39%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch; tennis racquets Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
January 29, 2008 at 11:48 am i haetz tu kibble wif yu Aoife, but iz nawt lunch needer — iz a tyni snak hai fyber, loe fat, jus a biet-syz snakky frum vending masheen. Emo Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Your skin looked smooth with a healthy sheen. The Sun
He looked at her, her face gleaming with a sheen of sweat as she watched him.
Michael Sheen on the beach at Port Talbot, where he is appearing in Owen Sheers's play The Passion. Owen Sheers: a Passion play for Port Talbot
Nasheen said: ‘He just stood there and said he felt really guilty and was so sorry.’
These are smooth, with a slight silvery sheen on the grooved upper surface, sculptured with raised veins on the convex lower surface, and with a few crenations on the margins.
AmE lieuténant, BrE lefténant littérateur literatër lorgnette, lorgnon lornyét, lornyón louche loôsh luthier-a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars məshêen madame brothel, Madame title madáme, cf. mádam shopping madeleine mádeleíne mademoiselle madame wàzél maisonette maizonét maître d'hôtel métradô-tél, mâitradô-tél maladroit maladrŏit malcontent malines malêen mandoline (also 'mandolin' in English) mándə-lín margarine marjərìne marque type Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
In the book, he calls Sheen "one-of-a-kind ... a Polo preppy clotheshorse in a world of O.P. shorts and surf T-shirts" and "a wonderful mix of nerd ... and rebel. Rob Lowe on Partying Days with Charlie Sheen: "We Competed to See Who Could Play Harder"
Motorcycle great Barry Sheene will lead a parade of legendary riders in North Yorkshire this weekend.
Have your concrete polished to a marble-like sheen, and it needn't look like a public lavatory.
Cathy Barry sells drisheen, pints of Murphy and crubeens. The Boys of Fair Hill (2)
Newness and nowness lends successful Pop a temporary sheen that is quickly tarnished.
But just as Sheen arrived and the ranks of the expedition were beginning to give way before the strenuous onslaught of the Judies, the latter, almost with one accord, turned and bolted into their playground again. The White Feather
Although it has a superficial sheen, the film is mired in structural errors, weak plot contrivances and flimsy characterisation.
Some manicurists will then buff the nail with a chamois pad to impart a sheen on the finished item.
The most beautiful was a series of small graphite paintings, buffed to a dull sheen that recalls the surfaces of ancient mirrors.
One curved walnut kitchen cupboard had eight layers of gloss applied to perfect its sheen. Times, Sunday Times
It was heavy, made of dark wood and polished to a fine sheen.
The lampredotto was dominated, flavour-wise, by the spicy sauce lathered on top. boiled in milk and served with onions (a combination my colleague appealingly describes as tasting "like a sweaty hot water bottle"), a treatment that's also used in Ireland where it's commonly served with drisheen. The Guardian World News
Better quality sateen fabric is mercerized to give your linen a higher sheen.
Wouldn't it be wonderfully cathartic if all it took to tame that doe-eyed, imbecilic half-man -- not Charlie Sheen, we're talking about the child character Jake -- was someone who took the time to sit down with him and treat him like a German Shepard about to be euthanized? Hulu.com: Retaining the Sheen: The Worst Possible Two and a Half Men Replacements
Once the iron sheet is buffed to give it the dull sheen the engraving work is taken up.
Purists may bemoan the use of an actual producer and recording studio, and sure, the record is a tad sheeny.
Some continental examples were of copper alloy, of golden sheen when newly cast, while others were actually gilded. Times, Sunday Times
It is heady, too, and strong: sheen, dah, tah, noon, reh, zein, sounds that brook no spill of liquid before their heat, threaten any lilting sibilance to vapour and smoke if it should come too near. Eeeee! Art!
It is heady, too, and strong: sheen, dah, tah, noon, reh, zein, sounds that brook no spill of liquid before their heat, threaten any lilting sibilance to vapour and smoke if it should come too near. Eeeee! Art!
His language is adept but limited, flavoured by gymnastics and carrying an athletic sheen on a solid grounding of contemporary techniques. Times, Sunday Times
The sweat coats your body in a nasty, slick, oily sheen.
Water patterns bounce off polished chrome, the fibreglass shell is honed to a waxy sheen of pearl.
O filme é lindo o livro melhorrrrr ainda e aqui no Brasil já estamos na espera do próximo “eclipse” que pra mim foi o melhor livro e que une os 3 personagens espero ver Michael Sheen novamente ele é ótimo. Michael Sheen: Interview with 'New Moon' star on fitting in with the cast | EW.com
Billy looked again at the large wings of the butterfly, veined and mottled from dark green to black and with a sheen in the sunlight
Reliability, stability, and calm—good reasons why, when Matthew turned sixty-five and his arthritis worsened enough to make his hands useless in the trade, he fitted the vessel with a new engine and tanks, rebuilt the pilothouse with permanent sides to keep out the wind, polished the mahogany to an even higher sheen, installed a defogger on the center window and seating for passengers in the stern, and relaunched the Amelia Celeste as a ferry. The Summer I Dared
They come here to hear calypso and eat pelau, callaloo, roti and dasheen.
The second movement bestrode the narrow line between too-slow and just-slow-enough, and when the orchestra tuttis intervened I found myself longing for the return of that sheeny sound again.
Through a sheen of static, we listened to the songs of Edith Piaf and Billie Holiday, Plastic Bertrand and the Bee Gees. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
Sheen, who has been nominated for four Emmys for his art-imitating-life role as the sex-crazed bachelor, is currently facing domestic violence charges in Colorado following a Christmas Day argument with his crack-addicted wife, Brooke Mueller. Charlie Sheen Rehab
And (the relator continueth) as for Kanmakan, he became unique in loveliness and excelling in perfection no less; none could even him in qualities as in seemliness and the sheen of velour between his eyes was espied, testifying for him while against him it never testified. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Nara noticed that his pale face was sheened with sweat, shining in the dim green light of the controls.
On her right cheek is a mole and on her waist, under her navel, is a sign; her face shines as the rondure of the moon in sheen, her waist is slight, her hips a heavy weight, and the water of her mouth the sick doth heal, as it were Kausar or The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I note that book publishing itself is becoming much more honest, truthful, unimpeachable, authentic, and precise about everything from numbers of books sold to the unvarnished, unexaggerated, unerring, and unaffected stories it tells as all who toil and sweat in this scrupulous business strive as best we can to maintain the veracious sheen-of-sham and hocus pocus so inherently attached like Superglue to our equivocated reputations for flimflam and fiddle-dee-dee. Obscure Books, Part II - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
I remember what she looked like perfectly: every piece of fur standing out in sharp relief, brushed to a glossy sheen, her breeches green and gold.
In order to produce a higher sheen or gloss, we need to use a finer abrasive.
Twilight at Mrs. Wickett's, when the School bell clanged for call-over, brought them back to him in a cloud — Katherine scampering along the stone corridors, laughing beside him at some "howler" in an essay he was marking, taking the cello part in a Mozart trio for the School concert, her creamy arm sweeping over the brown sheen of the instrument. Goodbye, Mr Chips
Women with oiled and sheeny hair, combs thrust through their buns and intricate embroidered aprons tied round their waists, thronged the riverside bazaar.
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Keep them short and tidy but finish off with a glossy sheen of clear varnish. The Sun
Then it goes back, filches the worst and puts a dull sheen on it.
Since then thousands of artists have tried to bottle up its bright metallic sheen for themselves. The Sun
It's skin - he saw - was covered in a thin sheen of some translucent substance that glimmered tiny fish scales or mildew when it moved.
I scarcely know whether The Fighting Sheeney made more of a nuisance of himself during his decumbiture or during the period which followed it -- which period houses an astonishing number of fights, rows, bullyings, etc. The Enormous Room
The new songs, though, forfeit the elegance of her classic material in favor of sheen and rougher texture, as with the title track, which is more beat-driven than anything she's ever done. Diamond Lite
Whereas the strange lifeless vitality of David Cameron, with his pink depilated sheen, seemed like the product of a taxidermist. Five Daughters; Welcome to Lagos; Joanna Lumley's Nile
Somersetshire, in 1181 (with a cell on Mendip); the last was the celebrated charterhouse of Sheen in Surrey, founded in 1414 by king The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
Water patterns bounce off polished chrome, the fibreglass shell is honed to a waxy sheen of pearl.
Last night on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Kimmel sympathized with Sheen's publicist, who he imagines is having a hard time coming up with ways to excuse the actor's behavior. Kimmel Reveals How Charlie Sheen's Publicist Copes (VIDEO)
The thick black hands flamed with an eerie blue sheen in the low light of the bridge, and dark green eyes glowed with a deranged luminescence from deep-set pits under the gunner's brow.
The sketch, which comedically sells "Winning," the new fragrance from Charlie Sheen, ran on Wednesday night's show, the day after the actor joined Twitter. Jimmy Fallon's Charlie Sheen Impression (VIDEO)
Renee's normally cobweb-like cloud of wavy brown hair now fell in a straight, gleaming sheen all the way to her upper back, at last looking more nut-brown than it did mousy.
Mr Blackhurst is the retired chairman of Belle Engineering of Sheen, cement mixer and earth mover manufacturers.
Whose eyne dyd feerie sheene, like blue-hayred defs [9], The Rowley Poems
If you see them well they have a lovely and almost sparkling purple sheen, especially to the middle of the forewing. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
President Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen, rebuts, Well, first of all, let's clear up a couple of things. Bob Cesca: Tea Party Republican Governors Embrace Socialism
The parking lot is full, the grass is covered with cars, there are even cars out on the street, everywhere there are cars, and in each car are people sheened with sweat, going nacreous as onions fried in butter; I can see through their clammy melting skin to the dry dusty dust of their bones. Wine Poetry
In the US they call them dasheen, taro, cocoyams and also malanga.
His first glimpse of her, on Class Day, in a white gown and a hat that to his manly indiscrimination looked as guileless as a sheaf of poppies nodding above the pale-yellow hair that had the sheen of corn-silk, had been a vision that stirred in him heroic promptings. Judith of the Plains
Its colors and streaming feathers are gorgeous with iridian sheen, combining the splendors of the pheasant and the peacock. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
_Hazaret Aallum-pennah, Salamet: fooker Darceish, ce jehaun-gesht hastam; ke mia emadam az wellageti door, yanne as muik Ingliz-stan, ke kessanion pesheen mushacar cardand, _ _ke wellageti mazcoor der akeri magrub bood, ke mader hamma jezzaereti dunia ast, &c. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
It has very few bumps or protuberances, and the surface has as mirror-like a sheen as you can get from white plastic.
And this album clearly recalls the band's original, vaguely seedy electropop sound, with contemporary beat collages and nouveau sheen giving it a breath of new life.
And he rode a great white mare, whose bases and other housings were black, but all besprent with fair lilys of silver sheen. Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
a metallic sheen or "schiller," which is even more pronounced in hypersthene than in bronzite. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
The wrapper in this case is made primarily from tapioca starch, which imparts a translucent sheen to the roll.
After flat-ironing your hair, it is best to use a lightweight serum or sheen that will smooth frizz without weighing down the hair.
The banks were lines of dusk, except where some lone cottonwood loomed skyward like a giant ghost clothed with a mantle that glistered and darkled in the chill star-sheen. The River and I
And the perfumed balm inside does feel silky to the touch, giving a subtle sheen. Times, Sunday Times
Over the next few seasons the high sheen would fade, gradually achieving that beautiful, soft verdigris of aged copper.
Then they farewelled him and went down to look after the safety of their troops; and they ceased not to keep up the fires till the morning rose with its sheen and shone, when the fighting-men mounted their horses of noble strain and smote one another with thin-edged skean and with brawn of bill they thrust amain nor did they cease that day battle to darraign. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Everything to do with the Midlands has an unintentional, iridescent sheen of hilarity about it. Times, Sunday Times
The sheenie man refugee is still very much in evidence, and though he sells things at ruinous prices (for himself, he says) seems to do well. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
About her shoulders was a shawl that seemed at first an ashy gray, but upon closer inspection was revealed to be interwoven with silvery threads and beads, rippling with a watery sheen as she moved.
For better or for worse, Men's paint-by-numbers stories appear to be trucking right along as though Sheen's firing was just a bump in the road or, more accurately, the train track. Fall TV: Who Did It Better?
Sheeny should not be traced to German shin, a cant word for "miser; base fellow; cheat" (an etymology proposed by a distinguished scholar). OUPblog
If the original sheen has faded, you should reseal the tiles, too. Times, Sunday Times
Rosheen watched as Postine came into view on the big screen, her massive frame picked out in infra-red against the night.
Renee's normally cobweb-like cloud of wavy brown hair now fell in a straight, gleaming sheen all the way to her upper back, at last looking more nut-brown than it did mousy.
He vaguely remembered first learning to master the tessellated squares alone in his basement, a cobwebbed series of spider nests along the ceiling, the static sheen of a computer screen backlighting their wiry, clockwise movement. Empty Windows, Empty Rooms
This will secure the glitter and give skin a gorgeous sheen, while adding definition to your cheekbones. The Sun
While Charlie Sheen was jubilantly waving his roof machete and roaring "Freedom!" earlier this week, his employers were doing the opposite. Hulu.com: Retaining the Sheen: The Worst Possible Two and a Half Men Replacements
How the hell could you get up to home plate every day and have some son of a bitch call you a Jew bastard and a kike and a sheenie and get on your ass without feeling the pressure. ROB NEYER’S BIG BOOK OF BASEBALL LEGENDS
Down the spiral path of the pit they bore him, encircling the sheening, glowing Red One that seemed ever imminent to iridesce from color and light into sweet thunder. The Red One
There's a uniform, dull sheen to the advice received by council.
A dark line of bent grass led through the moonlight silvered sheen across the meadow and toward the mountain.
Then in 2000, his barnet made an astonishing comeback, displaying a glossy dark sheen probably not seen since his days in university.
We need to ask ourselves if we are making good use of the many root crops we produce (yams, dasheen, cassava).
And as the chuckles subsided, they pondered over the prospect of their city yielding to the concrete bustle and losing its green sheen.
Your skin looked smooth with a healthy sheen. The Sun
Sheen resembles a startled gosling that's just crawled out of Charles Bukowski's left nostril or a haunted scarecrow from a Stephen King story. Idolising bad boys makes Charlies of us all | Barbara Ellen
At first he still enjoyed the sheen of effective public gestures.
The moon reflected off the soft sheen on Rex's face and I could see he had a small smile on.
The metallic sheen opens up the dark space. Times, Sunday Times
He gazed at the round edges of the brass casings that were inserted in the cylinder, the sheen of oil on the steel surfaces of the frame, the knurled tip of the hammer, the fine white bead on the barrel sight. The Glass Rainbow
Though he's chained up with other "lycan" slaves, werewolf messiah Lucian (Michael Sheen) pursues a love that dare not howl its name with vampire princess Sonja (Rhona Mitra), while her aristocratic dad, Viktor (Bill Nighy), skulks around like a Balkan Ming the Merciless. NashvilleScene.com
He combines hand-held camera, zoom lenses, freeze-frames, and well-timed cutaways to give the whole thing a perfect sheen.
The lapels of his well-worn suit seemed to carry a permanent sheen from years of dropped ash on worsted.
The rot spreads, mould covering the sheen of life, dragging it down with cloying, asphyxiating stealth.
In Part III (38 mins., beginning the second videotape), he discusses corm-producing aroid species such as tanias, taros, eddoes and dasheens. Chapter 24
It's not only great for lips, but also for adding the perfect sheen to cheeks. Times, Sunday Times
Michael Sheen has played former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and comedy legend Kenneth Williams.
There are sacks of potatoes; hills of tomatoes, carrots, sweet peppers; armfuls of dasheen bush; rows of sturdy, impressive melongenes.
It has very few bumps or protuberances, and the surface has as mirror-like a sheen as you can get from white plastic.
Built-in speakers and a subwoofer add an audiophile sheen to music and video. Times, Sunday Times
a metallic sheen or "schiller," which is even more pronounced in hypersthene than in bronzite. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
And the cocoa butter takes on a life of its own - it becomes not only an ideal thickener, but also lends a hand adding sheen to sauces.
You know, perfect cut, flawless style, healthy sheen, flirty bounce.
The pale blue cobblestones glistened as the sun's rays sparkled on the light sheen of water.
One stroke lifts the dark areas and adds a subtle sheen. The Sun
Fall's face is more sophisticated than the barefaced sheen of summer - why Brown recommends that African-American women focus on evening out their complexions with foundation.
Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen's leech Lopez, his jew's heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive: _Hamlet_ and _Macbeth_ with the coming to the throne of a Scotch philosophaster with a turn for witchroasting. Ulysses
It left a subtle, glossy sheen. Times, Sunday Times
So, as soon as light was seen and morn appeared with its shine and sheen, took horse the hosts twain and shouted their slogans amain and bared the brand and hent lance in hand and in ranks took stand. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Did anyone you researched think of themselves not as rogue scientists but as outsider artists, with a sheen of irony around their projects?
In the TMZ interview Sheen discoursed widely on a number of subjects, including his ability to cure himself from addiction, his views on parenthood, playing baseball and his efforts to house a group of porn stars nearby – "Some plans just don't work out," Sheen said – while surrounded by a group of his friends and admirers known as "Camp Charlie". Charlie Sheen interview: 'You can't process me with a normal brain'
Some have a subtle sheen; others look rubbery. Times, Sunday Times
Company spokesman, Sheena Wallis, said that the project had been re-evaluated and it was the company's intention to drill another exploratory well at the Dragon field later this year.
Calaloo (a green, leafy vegetable that is served cooked) is sometimes combined with taro, dasheen, or tania leaves, okra, pumpkin, and crab to make a dish called calaloo and crab.
If Islay's signature metal is the burnished copper of whisky stills, it gave place last weekend to the brassy sheen or sandblasted seriousness of the saxophone.
This jacket's slight gold sheen is subtle and classy. Times, Sunday Times
The silvery sheen displayed by many pelagic fishes is an example of structural color.
Only the hugely successful rally computer game that bears his name sparkles with a sheen of glamour.
Look beyond the crooner's perma-grin, the twinkle in the eye, the ever-bouncing quiff and there, on his cheeks and chin, was the unmistakable sheen of foundation.
Everything to do with the Midlands has an unintentional, iridescent sheen of hilarity about it. Times, Sunday Times
The more charlie sheen speaks, the more i think, 'you know, lindsay lohan really seems to have her stuff together,' " tweeted ThisIsRobThomas. The TV Column: Let the Charlie Sheen Backlash begin
The skin is sheeny and age-spotted and slightly yellow.
Her lips have a glossy sheen, her skin glows, her hair is perfect. Times, Sunday Times
repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen
Hull, who runs a private archaeological company TVAS at Crusheen, Co Clare, said that the remains were "disarticulated", meaning that it was not a full skeleton. Dailyindia.com News Feed
The pamor adds color and beauty to the otherwise dull black sheen of the blade.
Iz seen dis masheen in … strawbelly sumfing… wuz a clok wid poolbawls goyng all oberz it. Complex vending machine - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
In the morning we found our mounts well rested, coats curried to a high sheen, led out to the roadside mounting-block by a country lad, his hands and feet too large for his gangling frame. Kushiel's Avatar
Tree" is only the director's fifth feature film release since his resounding 1973 debut with "Badlands," starring Martin Sheen on a murder spree with his moll, played by Sissy Spacek. Marketing the Malick Mystique
I have a big night out which means I'm looking for a facial that will leave me buffed and sheeny for immediate impact today, not blotchy and deep cleansed for lasting benefits tomorrow.
In its court filing arguing against Mr. Sheen's emergency request Wednesday, Warner Bros., a unit of Time Warner Inc., said it would take at least four weeks for an arbitrator to be selected and schedule a hearing on whether the dispute itself can be arbitrated. Judge Rejects Sheen's Bid to Stop Arbitration
Most cultivars, particularly the dasheens, contain oxalic acid (0. 1-0.4 per cent fresh weight) mainly in the form of 'raphides', ie bunches of needle-shaped crystals of calcium oxalate embedded in the tissues. Chapter 32
His face is heavyset, its mid-coffee coloring sheened with sweat.
By now, Eleno and Manuel were bringing us other pieces, which, when turned in the sunshine, glimmered with a golden or silver sheen. Obsidian in Mexico: gift of the gods
While the advent of TV may have eclipsed the romance of radio, as he puts it, much of the sheen and euphony one used to note and hear in yester-year's music is regretfully found absent in the present-day menu.
“Sheena alone has power to skew the weather,” I told Undead Ted, “but not to brew up a megastorm like this.” Silver Zombie
The street glistened with the sheen of light rainfall.
Despite the hot weather, the grass still had that Astroturf sheen the spring rain had given it. THE EXECUTION
The most beautiful was a series of small graphite paintings, buffed to a dull sheen that recalls the surfaces of ancient mirrors.
Keep them short and tidy but finish off with a glossy sheen of clear varnish. The Sun
Eddos have an advantage in that they last longer in storage than dasheen, because the tops are not cut off.
Payne Burton I passed by a ruined tomb in the I past by a broken tomb amid midst of a garden way, Upon a garth right sheen, Whereon whose letterless stone seven on seven blooms of Nu'aman blood-red anemones lay. glowed with cramoisie. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
He had hair so black there was a blue sheen to it, and his eyes were an odd, bright green with a flash of tawny in the center, his skin an even golden brown tan.
(06 March 2008) - by Sheena SoodSinger-songwriter Asa (pronounced "Asha") was born in Paris and raised in Lagos. Cool Hunting
Mr Blackhurst is the retired chairman of Belle Engineering of Sheen, cement mixer and earth mover manufacturers.
Some are flavoured, scented and others are two-tone, mixing two colours to create a lovely glossy sheen.
Gregory noticed a queer sheen in tha man's deep-socketed eyes which reflected from the tubes of cold light above. SHROUDS OF THE DEATH-CRYPTS
The beads are then lustred all over with mother of pearl giving them a beautiful sheen like oil on water.
‘Pierre Lunaire’ is a clear highlight, a dark, demented meditation on obsession cased in sheeny synths and vibrating turntable scratches.
American Sheena Hall, who is a Maryland native studying political science at Howard University in Washington, studied in Hyderabad, India, for six months last spring as a Benjamin A. Gilman scholar.
The emphasis on correct proportions, angles, different values and sheens have created one of the most intriguing collections in the industry.
So she took her lute and made them such melody that had caused the hardest rocks to dance with glee; and they passed the night in mirth and merriment, converse and good cheer, till morn appeared with its sheen and shone, when the Caliph laid an hundred gold pieces under the prayer-carpet and all, after taking leave of Ala al-Din, went their way. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But then he moved, and the candle caught the sheen of flaxen hair. HERE BE DRAGONS

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