Silvery

//ˈsɪlvəɹi//

"Silvery" in a Sentence (17 examples)

He had a lot of straight, silvery hair.

Actinium is a silvery metal.

Beyond lay the sea, shimmering and blue, and over it soared the gulls, their pinions flashing silvery in the sunlight.

I found myself walking under the silvery lights of Regent Street, full of thoughts of Gladys and of wonder as to my future.

If the wind happened to catch her long silvery veil and any one saw it, they only thought it was a swan flapping its wings.

Nickel is a hard metal with a silvery luster.

High in the night sky the moon is shining bright, flooding wood and pasture with silvery light.

To the northward a silvery stream could be seen meandering, bordered by willows, aspens, osiers, and other trees of considerable height, breaking the line of the horizon.

Josh Helston glittered in the morning sunshine like a harlequin in a limelight, for he was spangled from head to foot with the loose silvery scales of the pilchards caught during the night, and on many another night during the past few weeks.

The moon casts a silvery glow on the Earth.

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OF all th' enamell'd race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.

Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.

A silvery cloud drifted over the mountains that surrounded him, its edges glowing with ruddy light cast from the harvest moon cradled between two peaks.

Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

But inside the aquarium, riotously colored saltwater fish, schools of silvery piranhas, and even one seemingly communicative manta ray allow visitors to dream of worlds beyond a war that has made the land where the oceanic sanctuary sits a battle zone.

a silvery laugh

The hand grasped the curtain, and drew it aside, and as it did so I heard a voice, I think the softest and yet most silvery voice I ever heard.

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