sheen
IPA: ʃˈin
noun
- (also figuratively) Splendor; radiance; shininess.
- A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface.
- The letter ش in the Arabic script.
- An area in London, officially East Sheen.
- A village in Staffordshire, England.
- A surname.
verb
- (rare, intransitive, poetic) To shine; to glisten.
adjective
- (rare, poetic) Beautiful, good-looking, attractive; radiant; shiny.
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Examples of "sheen" in Sentences
- He polished his shoes to make sheen.
- The wings are black with a sheen of blue.
- The silk gives the carpets their unique sheen.
- Guard hairs add the sheen to the coat of an animal.
- None of the four museum specimens shows any sheen of blue.
- They often take on the appearance of a metallic lustrous sheen.
- The annamensis has a golden sheen, especially obvious in the females.
- He was understudy to Michael Sheen in the Harold Pinter play Moonlight.
- The water of the local Hirehalla nala added a special sheen to the blue.
- Inside the shell, the nacre has a sheen which is white, blue, and silver.
- When dawn broke and morn arose in sheen and shone, the Fakirs went to seek the
- They aren't altogether bad, but they have a certain sheen to them that looks flat and polished.
- My favourite SF shows are all American, although maybe there's a certain sheen added by cultural distance.
- The product, at the end of the day, is a very literary, heavy on style monkeyism, story which might just have a thin sheen of SF patina on it.
- In fact, a single drop of crude oil dropped into relatively still water in the Gulf can spread out to form a sheen the size of several football fields, even though the sheen is only a few microns thick.
- And when day-break dawned and the star of morn appeared in sheen and shone, he broke up the sitting and, dismissing the youths, donned his court-dress and leaving his house set out for the palace of the
- On her right cheek is a mole and on her waist, under her navel, is a sign; her face shines as the rondure of the moon in sheen, her waist is slight, her hips a heavy weight, and the water of her mouth the sick doth heal, as it were Kausar or
- When the morning morrowed in sheen and shone, Nur al-Din awoke from deep sleep and found that she had brought water: 484 so they made the Ghusl-ablution, he and she, and he performed that which behoved him of prayer to his Lord, after which she set before him meat and drink, and he ate and drank.
- Because no one gives a crap about her and she doesn't have to worry about any voter retaliation if they take a definitive stance either way. orange cinema why is it that she can specifically & directly pose at least one solution to our severe economic problem, and neither of our tapdancing flip-flopping candidates can? and btw martin sheen is still a badass. blog comments powered by Disqus