Like an uncirculated penny

Usage examples of shiny.

He turned to look at Tuhluer, who was limping up to him through the phalanx of exoskel guards, his own emergency esuit and helmet deployed, the shiny bulge of faceplate reflecting the silvery diamond bubble that enclosed the Archimandrite and his chair.

From its sharp hairpins you can see the Mediterranean on a fine day, or at least the shiny new autoroute that swings inland at Cannes and goes past Aix and Avignon.

Pretending to be setting an example, Prairie slid over to one of the work counters, wrestled a hot baloney into place, quickly sharpened a knife, and began to carve the object into steaming, purple-rimmed slices, which she arranged attractively on a serving platter, generously spooning more shiny grape liquid over the top, to be carried in and set on one of the mess-hall tables, where eaters would serve themselves except for the people in assertiveness programs, of course, who sat over at their own table and each got a separate plate with the food already on it.

I can see a blurry, distorted reflection of his face in the shiny ball on my desk.

I last saw him in my own house with his body-servant and his braw clothes and his shiny boots and his silver dressing-case, the very pattern of a Corinthian.

The warmth of the little fire reflected from shiny log walls, the quiet chuckling of a grandfather clock, the homey display of old photographs over the mantle.

Lo Manto walked into the room, wood floors shiny and waxed, sideboard lights on dim, the bar long and polished.

The shiny FedEx truck was parked outside the diner, looking out of place on the dusty, monochromatic street.

I kept wiping my goggles and face with my Montagnard scarf, and my leather jacket was shiny with moisture.

With a gush of outrushing air and a blast of icy wind, the helmet was torn from his hand, a round, shiny cannonball sailing into the infinite sky.

Then drawing a petronel from his breast, he pointed the long, shiny barrel at the priest, whose face went ashen at the sight.

Still, a number of gray petrous visages continued to appear, drawn on by a habit which they called duty, and perhaps, though none would have admitted it, a sort of perilous curiosity roused by this young man who invoked flesh and deity alike in whistling tones which bounced off their northern souls like shiny stones scaled over still water.

His objective was Doyle Pettit, minus his hat, goggles, and coat, standing by the hood of his shiny black automobile and proudly demonstrating to the curious the function of the crank.

The pavement was shiny, as black goo congealed into plasticky, pungent shellac.

The beautiful, shiny polyhedra were tinted crystal, grown around magnetic metal cores.