shiner

Example Sentences

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Gay had previously told several different stories about how she got the shiner, but had maintained until recently that she didn’t fully recall the events that led to her injury.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 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

Crappie are fair to slow on mostly jigs or live shiner.

From Washington Times • Oct. 30, 2019

The shiner had been a whole lot bigger and blacker a couple of days earlier, he said.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt