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Examples

  • The Dixie cup said to the shineless tinsel, draped across a skeletal limb of someone's past joy.

    Tinsel Emily Smith-Miller 2011

  • Three shineless quarters in the yellow vinyl chair, a dime in the heater, nineteen cents in the cracks of the warped old floor.

    Thanksgiving Bill Roorbach 2011

  • Titus Alden, who, in an old, thread-bare and out-at-elbows coat, as well as baggy, worn, jean trousers and rough, shineless, ill-fitting country shoes, desired by his look to know what he wanted.

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • It was not quite dark: a dull, shineless twilight filled the place.

    The Princess and Curdie George MacDonald 1864

  • I mocked her in the mirror, the supermodel figure shifting into Lauren's short, thin body, the hair shifting dark blonde and shineless.

    Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent 2009

  • It lightens from it’s dark drown to a boring dull shineless medium brown .. which I do not like.

    the-moo Diary Entry the-moo 2005

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