pearly
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His zest for life was palpable, accented by his pearly smile across the dimly lit windowless lounge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Some people watching last week's eclipse did see this familiar pearly color.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
The school’s new superintendent, Michael Borgschulte, an amiable lieutenant general with a Bronze Star and a pearly white set of teeth, steps onto the bandstand.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
“Do I fit the criteria in terms of Christianity and in regard to St. Peter and pearly gates?”
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2025
I fingered the face, wondering at the single-stroke eyebrows; picked at the pearly teeth stuck like two piano keys between red bowline lips.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
And what is most remembered about a performance to Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings” is “the transcendent scene of 17 women onstage, swathed in the palest and pearliest of blues.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
The world's shiniest, smoothest, pearliest eggs to impress your friends with.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2022
Finding the pearliest treasures at shorelines called for avoiding crocodiles, spiny urchins and “burning sea slime,” Claudia Swan, one of the essayists, points out.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
Another man, who didn’t make a movie until he was 50, had the pearliest record of all.
From Time ● Jan. 9, 2014
Her voice was the pearliest, most musical, and yet most distant of things.
From Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I by Mrs. Humphry Ward
