shiner

Example Sentences

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Her Moschino shiner had wings at the shoulders.

From Washington Times • May 3, 2022

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

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