silvery

adjective sil·very \ ˈsil-v(ə-)rē \

|Updated on: 19 Jun 2018

Examples: silvery in a Sentence

Definition of silvery

1 : having the luster of silver

2 : having a soft high clear musical tone

a silvery voice

3 : containing or consisting of silver

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silveriness

noun

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Examples of silvery in a Sentence

a pond full of silvery fish
a dress of silvery gray silk
Silvery light reflected off the water.
The violinist played with a bright, silvery tone.
a singer with a beautiful silvery voice

Recent Examples of silvery from the Web

In the meantime, the black headwater catfish and silvery Mexican tetras will have the 3.5 million gallon pool all to themselves.

— john maccormack, San Antonio Express-News, "Rash of earthquakes prompts fear of oil boom in Balmorhea," 15 June 2018
The silvery luster seen on blueberries is called the bloom, a natural wax-like coating the berry makes to protect itself from insects and bacteria and to seal in moisture.

— ashleigh spitza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "'Little blue dynamos,' blueberries pack in flavor and nutrients," 11 June 2018
But the next month, Pinkhasov's wife, Olga Yurgaueva, found a drops of a silvery substance on the floor.

— scott berson, miamiherald, "Business owner put poisonous mercury in family's air conditioner after complaints, DA says," 31 May 2018
The artist’s future is foreshadowed by several enthusiastic if embryonic paintings, a fantastic homemade tuxedo jacket of clear plastic striated with silvery threads, and of course, the tantalizing suggestion of puppets.

— sharon mizota, latimes.com, "The mystery of the puppet-head box: Why an Iowa childhood has been unpacked in an L.A. gallery," 30 May 2018
Sister Mary David, who deserves a column of her own, stood just over four feet tall and had a halo of silvery hair peeking out from under her bonnet.

— christine m. flowers, Philly.com, "Can strong women be non-partisan? | Christine Flowers," 24 May 2018
In New Mexico, stretches of the Rio Grande — another one of North America’s longest rivers — have already gone dry as biologists have been forced to scoop up as many endangered Rio Grande silvery minnows as possible so they can be moved upstream.

— Washington Post, "Experts: ‘Alarming’ drought conditions hit US Southwest," 23 May 2018
Most have been channel cats, weighing 2-5 pounds — dogged fighters with silvery/blue flanks sprinkled with the abundance of black spots that channels from clear-water streams seem to always sport.

— shannon tompkins, Houston Chronicle, "Catch the good times rolling on the rivers," 12 May 2018
But this picture moves, like a silvery ghost, from the Polish countryside in 1949, to Warsaw and Berlin, to the nightclubs of Paris and then—well, never mind.

— stephanie zacharek, Time, "Cannes Review: Cold War Is a Terrific Romantic Drama That Burns Clean," 11 May 2018

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