shiner
Example Sentences
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Anthony Davis has a shiner, and things just got heavier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2024
With a welt near his ear and a shiner under one eye, umpire Junior Valentine worked the plate right on schedule.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
“The truth is that here as the poor people that we are, we don’t understand that,” José Lopez, 81, a shoe shiner in San Salvador, said before the national Bitcoin adoption.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
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 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
