Example Sentences

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As a year-end gift, the parents had their daughters scratch their names into a silverish picture frame, which was given to me wrapped in yards of tissue paper inside a Tiffany box.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2022

Some of the rocks were black and some slate, but many were silverish, shimmering with what looked like mica.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

He could see the silverish disc described by the spinning propeller, but the aircraft seemed to be standing still.

From Dave Dawson at Casablanca by Bowen, Robert Sydney

A high wind had arisen that set the countless blades vibrating so that each bit of sun-swept meadow was naught but a silverish blurr, with the tree tops above it tossing wildly about.

From Stubble by Looms, George

Lance's glance shifted upward, scanning the velvet backdrop of frosty white points of light against which the slender, silverish, almost wingless form stood framed.

From Next Door, Next World by Locke, Robert Donald