Etymology
Origin of silvering
Example Sentences
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Bonlie, a middle-aged man with silvering hair and a cheerful manner, listened attentively as she went through her long list of symptoms and her account of two decades of intermittent misery.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022
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
They looked out over the pool with the afternoon sky silvering its surface.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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