Metallic look

Usage examples of sheen.

Although the shrine was dark and fading sunlight had climbed halfway up the walls, laying a bronze sheen on the cloudily opaque torsoes of the gigantic soldiers, everything in the square apse shone with an intense particularity.

He glanced about, at the cage, the obliviously moving aliens, at the slick sheen of mercury-like substance that covered the armature of the birdcage.

The Caribbean sun was setting, sheening the distant ocean horizon a glittering copper rose, but Aurora scarcely saw the beauty.

Now the surface had a rusty sheen to it, mirroring a redness in the sky that came, Ralph Bales believed, from garbage pumped into the air by refineries outside of Wood River, across the Mississippi.

A woman who seemed old and bent as the tree opened it and saw him where he stood, the broken moonlight sheening off helm and byrnie and his horse, which was the colour of mist, cropping the frosty grass behind him.

In the torchlight, the drumhead had the russet hue of well-tanned oxhide, but a sheen as of tiny scales hinted of some other origin.

It sported a much duller sheen than its larger relative and was no more than a couple of inches tall.

To the side of the platform where the eldress sat rested a small wooden box, carved with a constellation of stars and polished to a velvet sheen.

Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker, twenty feet high or more, was rushing on to us.

Some were doubled over from the weight of fungal growth they carried on their bodies, some were thin and partially eaten away, covered in only a sheen of mold.

The second moon, the Gifter, was high above the valley, illuminating the rocks opposite with a silvery sheen.

Without the filing cabinets the fungus growing in the corners showed acid green and livid purple, with a wet sheen like the innards of a slaughtered beast.

The rows of pillars that lined the central hall were each carved from a single iroko tree and lacquered to a deep sheen.

Lashes and brows as black as the Towers of Kaf framed her eyes, which, despite the pull of fatigue, still met his with the sheen of interest.

And those spines, silvery in sheen, suggested ghoulish animation, the existence of which Kaw could sense as a nameless and menacing unease.