"shiny" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She allowed him a moment to digest this, and drummed her fingers silently against the hard, shiny veneer of her desk.
- He became imperfect Dave, losing his shiny veneer.
- Its engine was smoking badly, and fluid was leaking steadily onto the Honda beneath, spreading a shiny veneer over the hood.
- Of course beneath the shiny veneers lie hearts of steel, ambition-poisoned minds and imaginations steeped in blood.
- But although American officials praise the highly visible joint drug-enforcement programs, they say the operations are a shiny veneer hiding a rotten core.
- These days, a typical auto-body paint job consists of primer, then color, then a shiny acrylic veneer called clear coat.
- "Orlando has a bright, shiny veneer," Representative Mica said.
- Slick desert varnish, a shiny rust-brown veneer over cream-colored sandstone, coated the route above.
- What sets Cannes apart is the shiny veneer with which it has coated these elements.
- There, on the shiny veneer, sat a cardboard package, identical to the one he had received eighteen months earlier.
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