Etymology
Origin of silvering
Example Sentences
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“This is my busiest I think I’ve ever been in my life,” said Mr. Thompson, a third-generation water hunter with silvering hair and the lumbering gait of a bear.
From New York Times • Jul. 17, 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
He wears his silvering hair short on the sides and has a rainbow friendship bracelet tied around one wrist.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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