sheens
- present tense form of sheen (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The extravagant display featured satin sheens showcasing Mabille’s signature styles.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2024
The volume of oil spilled has not been determined, but activists have published images of polluted farmland, water surfaces blighted by oil sheens and dead fish mired in sticky crude.
From Washington Times • Jun. 26, 2023
In astronomy, iconic images, like the “pillars of creation” or a black hole’s event horizon, are beautiful and awe-inspiring, but what we see is essentially made of numbers rather than imperceptibly sheer sheens of paint.
From Scientific American • Nov. 16, 2022
Mundwiller says baseboards, crown molding and entry doors are suited to satin or higher sheens, because the contrast between a wall and a baseboard, for example, can create an appealing look.
From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2022
It was crow colored—black, but with petrol sheens of green and purple and deep blue—but the underside of its wings was red.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
