Example Sentences

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We're just waiting for the songwriting to catch up with the sonics, which are as punchy and shinily atmospheric as you could want them to be.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2012

It's chillwave disco, shinily produced but with a nostalgic patina to convey a longing for a musical past and a sense of regret that a genre's heyday is over.

From The Guardian • Nov. 12, 2012

Brilliant, cold, totally, absolutely, and maddeningly fair, all her inner workings shinily encased and hidden from view.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

Coldly, she turned away, and crossed to where the collie was beginning to weary of his fruitless efforts to climb the shinily smooth bark of the giant gumbo-limbo.

From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Terhune, Albert Payson

Everywhere the shell-craters show up shinily in the aerial photographs, with their water reflecting the light like silver mirrors.

From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Gibbs, Philip