shinny

Example Sentences

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For the climbing task, the winning design evolved two arms and two legs that help it shinny up a shaft like an ape.

From Scientific American • Dec. 10, 2021

It’s not easy to practice in summer skates that are more like shinny than postseason hockey, but McDavid has taken it upon himself to try.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2021

Celestial shinny games just got a lot more rugged.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2019

His Plan B — to shinny up the century-old pine tree in his back yard — was also now defunct, he said.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2012

When the big limbs are gone we shinny back down and set our machetes to biting into the trunk.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads