Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word silver-bright.

Examples

  • The design chief for Confederate Motorcycles—a boutique manufacturer of what might be called high-art drag bikes—includes among his inspirations Arjuna, the silver-bright and unconquerable charioteer in the Mahabharata; Sun Tzu's military strategy of "yielding and resisting"; the "intentionality" of Japanese architect Tadao Ando; and the exploded-view functionalism of Pompidou Center.

    The Master of Machine-Age Motorcycles Dan Neil 2011

  • She was near enough to see the expression of his face, and the nails in his soles, silver-bright with constant walking.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • It was a long howl that just silently arose out of the silence of that night to soar more mournful and more mournfully high and wild up toward the silver-bright clear-sky moon that hung over the Santa Fe basin that night.

    It's Always a Threat of War, Never a Threat of Peace The Daily Growler 2006

  • Everywhere shone silver-bright radiators, such as we had not seen since we left their like freezing in Burgos; but though the weather presently changed from an Andalusian softness to a Castilian severity after a snowfall in the Sierra, the radiators remained insensible to the difference and the air nipped the nose and fingers wherever one went in the hotel.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • In the center of the circle I saw a thick disk-shape of some silver-bright metal.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • The silver-bright canals branching from the riverbank.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • A strange chain, sliding out of a dark opening, it was made of odd silver-bright objects clinging together.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • A strange thing, its slender body green and yellow, its great head silver-bright, it was half alive and half machine, monstrous and somehow magnificent.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • The foremost of them, a stout warrior, moved to meet the chariot with the same numb steadiness the other cultists showed, but his silver-bright armor drew attention.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • The foremost of them, a stout warrior, moved to meet the chariot with the same numb steadiness the other cultists showed, but his silver-bright armor drew attention.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.