- present participle of silver.
Etymology
Origin of silvering
Example Sentences
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The man, who had silvering hair and wore a black Ariat quarter-zip and jeans, nodded and lowered his voice slightly.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2021
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
This will make the inside surface of the clear plastic a perfect mirror for such rays without any need for the silvering used on common mirrors.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
"Tristran?" asked his father, who at five and thirty was still middling tall and still freckled, although there were more than a few silvering hairs in his nut-brown curls.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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