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Meanings of silvery in English
Of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver.
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Examples for "silver"
Examples for "silver"
1
This silver block with attached chain is a good case in point.
2
In Singapore, however, consumers used price dips to buy gold and silver.
3
Wood and coal; apple and peach; iron and silver; ship and automobile.
4
The stars were out; the sea was silver; the sun was up.
5
You don't change our border silver as often as you used to.
1
The argent limbs of Antinous brushed against the garments of Mona Lisa.
2
The argent light lit up all four corners of the garden.
3
Azure and argent light flashed in a vague sphere around me.
4
He flailed now, limbs churning, enmeshed in the argent puissance invoked by Tayschrenn.
5
The crest, out of a crown vallery, argent, a cask of whisky, gules.
1
The silverish hair was light enough to spot in the dark.
2
Small conical islands were mirrored on the silverish shimmer, with skinny trees clinging to their wrinkled mossy sides.
3
The ceiling was transparent, and she could just make out the dim silverish moon-glow of the habitat's light-tube through the clouds.
Usage of silvery in English
1
The waters of the North sparkled and tossed in the silvery sun.
2
The moon rose in the silvery sky, empearling the clouds around her.
3
Very handsome; leaves silvery white beneath; among others is a weeping variety.
4
The little silvery chime of a clock in the saloon struck twelve.
5
Swift and sure the prow of the night-boat parted the silvery foam.
6
To his right there was silvery flatness all the way to Kansas.
7
Then the brit broke in silvery leaping waves on the shelving beach.
8
The silvery light of the moon added to the sadness and loneliness.
9
Several of the silvery doors were open, with people peering out nervously.
10
His black outline looked unusually powerful in the silvery whiteness surrounding it.
11
The other lingered, his sentimental eyes gleamed silvery in the shadowy face.
12
The moon through the opposite window still shone on the silvery hair.
13
At last she saw an unmistakable silvery break in the eastern clouds.
14
He was mournfully handsome as he stood there in the silvery light.
15
On the mantelpiece the clock struck the hour-six little tinkling silvery strokes.
16
The grey stone of the Masters' Hall was silvery in the moonlight.
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Silvery through the time
Silvery across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common