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sheen
1[ sheen ]
Sheen
2[ sheen ]
noun
- Fulton (John), 1895–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman, writer, and teacher.
sheen
/ ʃiːn /
noun
- a gleaming or glistening brightness; lustre
- poetic.splendid clothing
adjective
- rare.shining and beautiful; radiant
Derived Forms
- ˈsheeny, adjective
Other Words From
- sheenful adjective
- sheenless adjective
- sheenly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of sheen1
Word History and Origins
Origin of sheen1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Michael Sheen on his psychologically rigorous role in Masters of Sex—and his romance with Sarah Silverman.
Sheen plays Bill Masters as a doctor with a God complex, if God had been a sex researcher masking tons of insecurities.
Sheen saw this coming because he has always taken the long view of his character.
As wily as his character when asked about it, Sheen proved himself to be a master of the media, feinting with a good sound bite.
In his rendition Charlie Sheen stands in a foyer and overturns a bucket filled with checks, not ice water.
He knew that this elegant city, resplendent and glorious in the sheen of the setting sun, would soon be a living hell.
I like sus-sus-pen-sheen bridges that fly from bank to bank, with one big step, like a gang-plank.
When he woke he wondered where he was; but as through the porthole he saw the sheen of the sea he remembered everything.
A small palm tree was set in the midst of the arena,—the trunk bronze, the leaves one sheen of gold-foil.
It is probably the bright sheen of the water that draws the fluttering moths into its depths.
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