Example Sentences

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If there is a unique magic to his work, it is the restoration of at least a glimmer of the great and shiningly obvious place that we might occupy in our own lives.

From Slate • Sep. 12, 2018

Compelling in an entirely different way was Kyoungil Ong of OngDance — a Bay Area specialist of Korean forms — whose large, wide-eyed face registered shiningly through the theater.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2015

The company’s commitment to new choreography was clear; its technical aplomb and stylistic versatility shiningly apparent.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2012

It seemed like a small price to pay for the sheer shiningly precise perfection of the finished construction.

From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2012

Lady Wrackley looked shiningly artificial, seemed to glisten with artificiality, and her certainly remarkable figure suggested to him an advertisement for a corset designed by a genius with a view to the concealment of fat.

From December Love by Hichens, Robert Smythe