[
UK
/sˈɪlvəɹi/
]
[ US /ˈsɪɫvɝi/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪɫvɝi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver
silvery hair -
resembling or reminiscent of silver
singing in her silvery tones
a soft silvern voice -
having the white lustrous sheen of silver
a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap
repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen
How To Use silvery In A Sentence
- Its body has a good deal the shape of the pike; but it is protected by scales of a silvery gray colour and so strong that a dagger could not pierce them.
- Cult mezzo Magdalena Kozena and silvery soprano Carolyn Sampson sound gorgeous, but are on the cool side as Paris and Cupid respectively.
- The year was ushered in by starlit skies, a bright silvery moon and biting cold.
- Brown pelicans dive into glistening sapphire waves to grab tiny silvery fish that jump from the water then fall back with a soft plop.
- They are green and white, and they carry their national symbol, the star and crescent, silvery bright and shiny.
- They were round, the size of a tangerine, and had apparently fallen from a large tree with a silvery bole.
- She was a wisp of a woman, barely taller than my shoulders, with silvery hair and deep blue eyes.
- Skirt a purple artichoke with a ruff of silvery artemisia, or mix some ruby-stemmed, fat-leafed rhubarb into a garden bed and you're creating combinations as artful as any in the most ornamental of borders. Valerie Easton: Are Your Vegetables Multi-Tasking??
- Nickel is a silvery white metal and is both ductile and malleable.
- Sodium is a silvery white metal with a waxy appearance.