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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheened
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Indeed, from the top of the Lincoln Memorial, the water was clearer and glistened with the reflection of the Washington Monument.
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The long curving claws of white ivory glistened their deadly threat.
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That night, the northern lights gleamed cold and hard, and the moon bathed the whole landscape in bleak, eerie light.
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The 4,202-pipe organ gleamed over us.
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On June 17, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima's 19-year-old daughter shimmered in Queen Emma's Diamond Tiara for her first-ever tiara wear at the state banquet celebrating the state visit from Japan at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam.
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Her slinky black shift dress shimmered with stripes of iridescent sequins that shifted color under the flashing lights.
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The notes glittered in place, but the piece came across more as a cerebral design than as a living thing.
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The Barbie alum glittered in a Bulgari choker necklace, adding a watch and bangle on her wrist for more shine.
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Camilla glimmered at a 2015 Royal Academy Annual Dinner in London in the floral Cubitt Tiara, which The Court Jeweller reported was an antique diamond piece that belonged to her grandmother, Sonia Keppel Cubitt, which Camilla inherited from her mother, Rosalind Cubitt Shand.
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Days earlier, at Makapuu Beach on the eastern shoreline of Oahu, the water glimmered with an unusual greenish tint, prompting people to head to beaches down the road where the water seemed clearer.
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After exposing the bones to a high-energy blue light, the team used an optical filter to see which of them glowed red.
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The sandstone bowl of a stadium built in 1924 glowed gold.
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After spending some time by the pool, a semi-Olympic lined with emerald and malachite mosaics that glinted in the soft, ambient light, followed by a quick trip to the sauna, I was escorted to my treatment room, about a half-flight of stairs up, where I was met by Marcia, my therapist.
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The silver Chrysler Sebring glinted when the sun kissed the parking lot in Temple, Texas, sitting by its lonesome.
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Red Beard knelt next to me, and light shone from his knees.
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South Africa’s 2010 World Cup, a mere 16 years after the end of apartheid, shone a light on the continent’s hopes and strengths.
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“Sheened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sheened. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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