silvery
adjective
resembling silver; of a lustrous grayish-white color.
silveriness
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a word derived from
silvery.
Example Sentences
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Often on a cold day, Francie came in chilled and put her arms around the boiler and pressed her frosty cheek gratefully against its warm silveriness.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
All round him there was silveriness and silence, and overhead the moon.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by Basil King
Moreover, along with the silveriness of Rameau, the simple solidity of French prose, and some of the old jollity of the medieval French artists, is in the music of Franck.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
For interminable miles a vast icy plateau stretched before them—a plain glistening with snow and reflecting like a burnished mirror the misty silveriness of the moon.
From The Eternal Maiden by T. Everett Harré
He glanced around him, unusually contented—at the ruddiness of the low fire, the brass bedstead, the warm red curtains, the soft silveriness here and there.
From The Return by Walter De la Mare
