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Meanings of metallic sheen in English

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Usage of metallic sheen in English
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This suit was spotless and its surface possessed a subtle metallic sheen.
The Fall of Reach
2
She had silver hair of a metallic sheen he'd never seen before.
The Dargonesti (Elves of the Sea)
3
They wore simple togalike garments that glimmered with a metallic sheen.
The evolutionary void
4
Its surface was smooth, without any visible markings or structures, a constant metallic sheen.
The Naked God
5
The sun disappeared behind a knife-edge ridge leaving a metallic sheen in the sky.
Watcher of the Dead
6
Glistening with a red metallic sheen, they looked somewhat like tulips with honeycombed centers.
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
7
But the pigment is its standout feature, which has a metallic sheen to it.
News.com.au
8
He praises the first-rate Soviet shoe polish that gave his wooden pistol a metallic sheen.
The new yorker
9
Their metallic sheen reminded her of the cold exterior of many of the new buildings in Paris.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
10
The old man had been dressed up in a grey silk suit with a metallic sheen to it.
Summer knight
11
That is 10 times the amount needed for a " metallic sheen" to be visible on the water.
The Guardian
12
Ahead, the ocean was tinted the blue of great depth, reflected as a metallic sheen by singular cotton-ball clouds.
The sex lives of cannibals: adrift in the equatorial pacific
13
BP says when there is a metallic sheen there would already be mortality among seabirds and other marine wildlife.
The Guardian
14
The sheer, undifferentiated flesh has a metallic sheen; it looks as if it would ring if you tapped it.
The Guardian
15
He flipped back the lid and inside he saw the metallic sheen of the material the Hazers used as paper.
Way Station
16
The deadly pair uncoiled their arms, like cobras preparing to strike, and their skin flickered with an underlying metallic sheen.
Sisterhood of Dune
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Metallic sheen through the time
Metallic sheen across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common