shoeshine
[ shoo-shahyn ]
/ ˈʃuˌʃaɪn /
noun
an act or instance of cleaning and polishing a pair of shoes. the surface of a polished shoe or shoes.
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How to use shoeshine in a sentence
She attends hip-hop and belly dance classes (known as Arabic dance in Iran) just to shine more at parties.
If we begin to see the other as our possession and commodity, our shoe, the shadow of our shadow, is there ever a happy outcome?
They seem to belong to us, and then they freely go—behavior very uncharacteristic of a shadow or a shoe.
If I say “my shoe,” do I mean it in the same way as “my life,” or “my sister” or “my husband”?
And a perfectly amber whisky might as well taste like an old shoe.
Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparent to let the celestial origin shine through.
The look of distress had vanished, and his sincere eyes seemed to shine again with courage and with strength.
Bondad sua, seor, I'll be sworn there is not one fit to tie the latchet of your shoe in the whole army.
But you, so formed to shine—to eclipse all others—do you never dance, seorita?
I should judge from the streets that not more than one-fourth of the females of Galway belong to the shoe-wearing aristocracy.
British Dictionary definitions for shoeshine
noun
the act or an instance of polishing a pair of shoes
the appearance or shiny surface of polished shoes
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