Sheen
noun
A gentle shine or glow on a surface.
The moon cast a silvery sheen on the water
Often appears as...
- silvery sheen
- glossy sheen
noun
The quality of being excellent or attractive.
The sheen of his writing style
Often appears as...
- professional sheen
- high sheen
noun
A gentle shine or glow on a surface.
The moon cast a silvery sheen on the water
Often appears as...
- silvery sheen
- glossy sheen
noun
The quality of being excellent or attractive.
The sheen of his writing style
Often appears as...
- professional sheen
- high sheen
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Luminosity
Sheen implies a soft, subtle shine, not a glaring brightness.
The antique table had a warm sheen after being polished.
Pro Tip 2/3Surface Texture
Sheen often describes a smooth surface that reflects light gently.
Her satin dress had a beautiful sheen under the soft lights.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Elegance
Use 'sheen' to describe natural or understated elegance, not extravagance.
The sheen of the polished wood gave the room an elegant feel.
Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Luminosity
Sheen implies a soft, subtle shine, not a glaring brightness.
The antique table had a warm sheen after being polished.
Pro Tip 2/3Surface Texture
Sheen often describes a smooth surface that reflects light gently.
Her satin dress had a beautiful sheen under the soft lights.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Elegance
Use 'sheen' to describe natural or understated elegance, not extravagance.
The sheen of the polished wood gave the room an elegant feel.
Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Luminosity
Sheen implies a soft, subtle shine, not a glaring brightness.
The antique table had a warm sheen after being polished.
Pro Tip 2/3Surface Texture
Sheen often describes a smooth surface that reflects light gently.
Her satin dress had a beautiful sheen under the soft lights.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Elegance
Use 'sheen' to describe natural or understated elegance, not extravagance.
The sheen of the polished wood gave the room an elegant feel.
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The danger of science...
sheen and it's a time machine and everyone in this room has to get into it and you can go backwards you can go forwards you cannot stay where you are and I wonder what you'd choose because I've been asking my friends this question a lot lately and they all want to go back I don't know they want to go back before there were automobiles or
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Safari Live - Day 320 PIPE...
ingest a few sand grains to work in the gizzard for the breaking up and the crushing of the seeds but they're able to see the difference in the reflection of a seed versus a sand grain because obviously the sand grains are bit more shiny they're very very small but they do have a sheen to them and so they're
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Safari Live - Day 182 PIPE...
but indeed it is a very very blue color and then it's from the carotenoids in the feathers there's also a lot of melon in there which keeps it strong and protects it from the Sun but at different angles of light provide that beautiful blue sheen that you find on the bird and the greater blue eared you
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Safari Live - Day 174 PIPE...
plant being called the silver cluster leaf terminalia sericea and it's very characteristic tree that we do you get and why it's called the silver cast leaf is because of that Sheen on the back a hairy color giving it a silver
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Why is 'x' the unknown?...
without lots of practice. Trust me on that one. Also, those very sounds tend not to be represented by the characters that are available in European languages. Here's one of the culprits. This is the letter sheen,
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Crayfish Hunting in...
While the amazing tail goes into the pot, Shane serves up some crayfish sashimi. Look at it. A bit of soy in there. Bit of wasabi. GORDON Nice. Look at that. The sheen on that is incredible, isn't it? Yeah.
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4 Lessons in Creativity...
and as soon as you see that the glaze has melted inside, you can see that faint sheen, you turn the kiln off, and you reach in with these long metal tongs, you grab the pot, and in Japan, this red-hot pot
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The myth of King Midas...
stone statues shone, and goblets glittered. He galloped through his home in a frenzy, handling each item until it took on a lustrous sheen. Soon the palace heaved with gold,
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Ben Katchor's comics of...
The foreboding sheen of an extra-large date. Do you remember wandering as a child through those dark wooden storefront galleries? Where everything was displayed
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A day in the life of an...
Lord Sun dawns on the day called 7-Monkey, his fingers slowly spreading a rosy sheen
Video examples
The danger of science...
sheen and it's a time machine and everyone in this room has to get into it and you can go backwards you can go forwards you cannot stay where you are and I wonder what you'd choose because I've been asking my friends this question a lot lately and they all want to go back I don't know they want to go back before there were automobiles or
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 320 PIPE...
ingest a few sand grains to work in the gizzard for the breaking up and the crushing of the seeds but they're able to see the difference in the reflection of a seed versus a sand grain because obviously the sand grains are bit more shiny they're very very small but they do have a sheen to them and so they're
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 182 PIPE...
but indeed it is a very very blue color and then it's from the carotenoids in the feathers there's also a lot of melon in there which keeps it strong and protects it from the Sun but at different angles of light provide that beautiful blue sheen that you find on the bird and the greater blue eared you
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 174 PIPE...
plant being called the silver cluster leaf terminalia sericea and it's very characteristic tree that we do you get and why it's called the silver cast leaf is because of that Sheen on the back a hairy color giving it a silver
Video examples
Why is 'x' the unknown?...
without lots of practice. Trust me on that one. Also, those very sounds tend not to be represented by the characters that are available in European languages. Here's one of the culprits. This is the letter sheen,
Video examples
Crayfish Hunting in...
While the amazing tail goes into the pot, Shane serves up some crayfish sashimi. Look at it. A bit of soy in there. Bit of wasabi. GORDON Nice. Look at that. The sheen on that is incredible, isn't it? Yeah.
Video examples
4 Lessons in Creativity...
and as soon as you see that the glaze has melted inside, you can see that faint sheen, you turn the kiln off, and you reach in with these long metal tongs, you grab the pot, and in Japan, this red-hot pot
Video examples
The myth of King Midas...
stone statues shone, and goblets glittered. He galloped through his home in a frenzy, handling each item until it took on a lustrous sheen. Soon the palace heaved with gold,
Video examples
Ben Katchor's comics of...
The foreboding sheen of an extra-large date. Do you remember wandering as a child through those dark wooden storefront galleries? Where everything was displayed
Video examples
A day in the life of an...
Lord Sun dawns on the day called 7-Monkey, his fingers slowly spreading a rosy sheen
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Paul W. S. Anderson
English Director
The way it works in commercials is they come to you with the script, and then you do the visual, you do the storyboards, and you give your vision of it, but it's very much their baby. You just kind of put your polish and sheen on it and your interpretation of it, but it's very much the agency's idea.
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Claire Foy
English Actress
With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They're distant; you can idealize them. But there's room to have compassion for people and see them as human beings. Just because they're royalty, it doesn't mean they don't love or feel loss or feel pain.
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Jose Garces
American Chef
If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you might find a dough that's baked and has a butter sheen on it. And then in Ecuador, you'll find more crispy-fried empanadas. So, yeah, every culture has their own version of empanadas.
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Jeanne Damas
Author
I use M.A.C. Brow Gel to bring out my eyebrows, then I curl my eyelashes every morning and apply M.A.C. Sheen Supreme Lipstick in Venomous Violet with my fingers - I use it as a lip balm multiple times throughout the day because I hate having bare lips.
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Chester Brown
Canadian Cartoonist
Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.
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David Leavitt
American Novelist
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
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Jessie Buckley
Irish Musician
It's easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you're making a film for people who want to escape their own problems. But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.
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Pankaj Mishra
Indian Novelist
Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.
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Kailash Kher
Indian Musician
Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
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Paul W. S. Anderson
English Director
The way it works in commercials is they come to you with the script, and then you do the visual, you do the storyboards, and you give your vision of it, but it's very much their baby. You just kind of put your polish and sheen on it and your interpretation of it, but it's very much the agency's idea.
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Claire Foy
English Actress
With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They're distant; you can idealize them. But there's room to have compassion for people and see them as human beings. Just because they're royalty, it doesn't mean they don't love or feel loss or feel pain.
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Jose Garces
American Chef
If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you might find a dough that's baked and has a butter sheen on it. And then in Ecuador, you'll find more crispy-fried empanadas. So, yeah, every culture has their own version of empanadas.
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Jeanne Damas
Author
I use M.A.C. Brow Gel to bring out my eyebrows, then I curl my eyelashes every morning and apply M.A.C. Sheen Supreme Lipstick in Venomous Violet with my fingers - I use it as a lip balm multiple times throughout the day because I hate having bare lips.
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Chester Brown
Canadian Cartoonist
Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.
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David Leavitt
American Novelist
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
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Jessie Buckley
Irish Musician
It's easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you're making a film for people who want to escape their own problems. But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.
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Pankaj Mishra
Indian Novelist
Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.
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Kailash Kher
Indian Musician
Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
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