- present participle of silver.
Etymology
Origin of silvering
Example Sentences
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Screen Goo is highly pigmented and has a little silvering in the paint that reflects light back at lots of different angles.
From The Verge • Feb. 24, 2020
A thickset Catholic businessman with silvering hair and bloodshot eyes, he was wearing a loose denim shirt.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2016
A typical example: “The moon is a sickled leopard’s tooth pinned to obsidian, its light silvering the violent undulations scoring the skin of your unforgiving water.”
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2016
Explain the functions of the various parts, such as the vacuum, the silvering of the walls, the thin-walled long glass neck, the rubber support, the air layer, and the stopper.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
The moon is out, shining through the window at one end, silvering the laundry ropes, making ghost gray shapes on the dusty floor.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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