silvery

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Silvia uttered an exclamation of dismay, ran for a silvery-white little onion and sliced it thinly into the salad.

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  1. adjective Containing or coated with silver.
  2. adjective Resembling silver in color or luster: "A fountain threw high its silvery water” (Harriet Beecher Stowe).
  3. adjective Having a clear, softly resonant sound: a silvery laugh.

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  • The ship towered there, silvery, already completed. —  AUGUST, 1953 VOL
  • His skin was silvery, and he was almost impossible to see. —  VANCE MOORE
  • The top of the egg, some thirty feet above the uppermost tier, was obscured by pale swirling mist, and through the mist you could see hanging lights -- silvery, delicate, exotically configured shapes that put Chemayev in mind of photographs he'd seen of microscopic creatures found in polar seas. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 03 - March 2001
  • The stumps were silvery, and on some moss had started to grow. —  forestmage
  • Her voice was soft and silvery, her arms and hands superb models for a sculptor, and all her movements and gestures manifested an exquisite, natural grace which made her conspicuous in the most crowded drawing-room. —  Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century
 

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