shiner
Example Sentences
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The best we can tell, a 19-year-old African American shoe shiner named Dick Rowland tripped as he entered the elevator in the Drexel Building.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2021
For decades, white and black Tulsans refused to talk about the events of May 31, 1921, when a black man who worked as a shoe shiner was accused of assaulting a white woman.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2020
Crappie continue to improve, especially shiner and will be found in brush piles.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2019
In the week since being knocked unconscious in a home plate collision in Houston, Angels catcher Jonathan Lucroy has walked around sporting a shiner and spoken as though plagued by a cold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2019
For a nickel, they had their new leather shoes shined and gave their old ones away to the shoe shiner.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
