sheen
Example Sentences
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The aesthetic favors deliberate roughness and mistakes over a sterile, polished sheen.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
Later, the counter began to crowd with flaky croissants, sticky pastry, brioches with amber sheen.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026
It comes across like a lower-fi version of such early punk groups as Suicide and Television with a digital sheen that suggests ’80s Tangerine Dream.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
The film honors maturity and all its weighty deliberations without putting a sheen of sentimentality on the condition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
He stayed that way a few moments longer, arm raised, chest heaving, a fine sheen of sweat filming his brow.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
