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• Xeranthemums have silvery flower heads with purplish tubular flowers.From the entry xeranthemum
• He was probably still awake up there, Snapchatting by the light of the silvery moon.2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry snapchat
• The dictyota I had that was invasive was a silvery color.2013 April 5, Islandoftiki, “Macro Algae ID?”, in Nano-Reef.com. From the entry dictyota
• "Well, grunkle Rik , w'at is it?" shouted Sammy, in silvery tones, from his father's shoulder.2010, R. M. Ballantyne, The Battery and the Boiler, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 261. From the entry grunkle
• Osmerids are generally small, silvery, elongate fishes that swim in the water column.2009, Gene Helfman, Bruce B. Collette, Douglas E. Facey, Brian W. Bowen, The Diversity of Fishes: Biology, Evolution, and Ecology, page 279. From the entry osmerid
• Switchblading open their silvery cell phones, they call their mortgage brokers and say “Buy.”2007, Richard Canning, Between Men: Best New Gay Fiction, →ISBN, page 253. From the entry switchblade
• Ytterbium is a silvery, soft, malleable, and ductile metal with a lustrous metallic shine.2006, Robert E. Krebs, “Guide to the Elements”, in The History and Use of Our Earth's Chemical Elements: A Reference Guide, 2nd edition…. From the entry ytterbium
• It would be ideal against the silvery foliage of some achilleas or artemisias.2004, Graham Stuart Thomas, The Rock-Garden and Its Plants, page 204. From the entry achillea
• With her elegant gowns and silvery ringlets, the delicate drow seemed the most unlikely of battlemasters.1995, Elaine Cunningham, Daughter of the Drow, TSR, Inc., →ISBN, page 295. From the entry battlemaster
• In the dim glow of starlight and streetlight he saw a wrinkled face and a silvery goatee.1986, F[rancis] Paul Wilson, “Dat Tay Vao”, in The Touch (The Adversary Cycle; III), New York, N.Y.: Putnam, →ISBN; republished in Shane…. From the entry flat-footed
• The little bag, with its shiny, silvery jaws open, lay on her lap.1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company…. From the entry powder puff
• He had a skin like white satin and a silvery down on his charming little head.1917, George W. Gough, chapter 19, in The Yeoman Adventurer. From the entry ikkle
• A light flutter of snow fell , and I glanced into the silvery sky, letting the flakes fall on my face.2024, Yasmine Galenorn, A Dream of Snow. From the entry flake
• Crumbling silvery stone beneath her hand and in front of her face: monzonite, maybe, or one of the lesser schists.2015, N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season, Orbit (2016), page 277. From the entry monzonite
• Idris, the first High King, had silvery eyes in a face lined with years of bright laughter and unspeakable sorrow.2012, Holly Taylor, Dreamer's Cycle Series. From the entry high king
• A closer look revealed a more silvery colouration and proper teeth, identifying it as a mulley (Wallagu attu).2011, Jeremy Wade, River Monsters. From the entry mulley
• Accordingly, there were silvery coats, hologram ties, jackets with facetlike seams, and lots of sensible if expensive sportswear.2007 July 3, Cathy Horyn, “In Paris, Some Push Ideas, Others Just Push Product”, in New York Times. From the entry facetlike
• Adolfo recalls it all with his wool boucle suit, mint green, touched with silvery metallic embued with all the elegant Chanelisms.1989, Caroline Rennolds Milbank, New York fashion: the evolution of American style. From the entry Chanelism
• 'Aaah!' they sigh, as the silvery Space Shuttle races heavenwards on top of a towering pillar of flame.1985, Joan Morrison, chapter 5, in Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 62. From the entry aah
• It is characterized by its erect, shrubby habit, silvery pubescence, large flowers, narrow leaflets, and manner of fructal dehiscence.1924, Ivan Murray Johnston, The Botany (The Vascular Plants), California Academy of Sciences, page 1044. From the entry fructal
• "Oh, cute-ums!" came the silvery voice of Miss Pratt from the likewise silvery porch outside, underneath the summer moon.1916 March, Booth Tarkington, “Mr Parcher and Love”, in Seventeen:A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially…. From the entry Cute-ums
• Opah is an extraordinary-looking ocean fish, with an almost perfectly round shape; a comparatively thin, flat profile; a silvery skin, and bright crimson fins.2013, Roy Yamaguchi, John Harrisson, Roy's Fish and Seafood: Recipes from the Pacific Rim, page 77. From the entry opah
• John stood near a large circular seawater tank containing a school of "borks" (Pagothenia borchgrevinki), silvery, foot-long, trout-shaped Antarctic fish that feed on plankton.2012, James McClintock, “Life Adrift: The Small Organisms Matter”, in Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry bork
• There was a striking black coatdress with square gold paillettes streaking down the sides, and a lovely black sleeveless dress with silvery panels.2007 July 5, Cathy Horyn, “At Versailles: Let Them Wear Cake”, in New York Times. From the entry coatdress
• In the ray of torchlight, silvery white seagulls with scotopic eyes that could see in the darkness, were piercing the green water.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 421. From the entry scotopic
• This year's centerpiece exhibit is a gardeny area by Wave Hill, planted entirely in varieties of foliage, from silvery gray to deep burgundy.1984, New York Magazine, volume 17, number 4, page 84. From the entry gardeny
• He, too, like the advancing Guard and the ground on which he knelt, was patterned jaspé in black shadow and silvery white.1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 187. From the entry jaspé
• Great bowl fulls of wild tumbling hills, blue mountains in the distance and a silvery stream—the Umzimkulu—winding in and out among the canyons.1918 November 12, Amy B. Cowles, “Letter From South Africa”, in Campbell Interurban Press, volume 24, number 36, Campbell, Calif.: Harry…. From the entry bowl full
• And there is the tender perennial ‘Blue My Mind’ dwarf morning glory (Evolvulus ‘Blue My Mind’), with nonstop, bright blue flowers that cover a spreading, silvery green plant.2021, Jan Johnsen, “The Elusive Blue Flower”, in Floratopia: 110 Flower Garden Ideas for Your Yard, Patio, or Balcony, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry dwarf morning glory
• Earlier in the meal, I especially enjoyed the fresh fish course, an arrangement of delicate, silvery sayori with plump, rosy clams called aoyagi, which are briny but sweet.1996 August 25, Elizabeth Andoh, “For Japan’s Female Chefs, More Than Home Fires”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry sayori
• Onyx flashed in her hair, and the delicate fabric that revealed, concealing, the outlines of her face and her body had the same silvery atrament of the stars.1994, Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver, The Island of the Day Before, New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, →ISBN, page 158. From the entry atrament
• In the silvery belly scales of the herring, deposits of minute, platelike crystals lie parallel to the scales’ surface, giving a pearly gleam to the grey fish.1983, “The Colourless colours”, in Helen Varley, editor, Colour, London: Marshall Editions Limited, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry pearlescent
• The full moon, hidden by veils of cloud, threw a pale phosphorescent luminousness over the heavens, and the towers of the church stood up black against this silvery fleece.1927, Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book VII, section 2, page 212. From the entry luminousness
• Looking out to sea, the eye rests on a fringe of madreporal shelves over which the blue waves, broken farther out in a line of silvery foam, come lazily.1926, The Philippine Journal of Science - Volume 31, page 302. From the entry madreporal
• The line of the horizon was clear and hard against the sky, and in one particular quarter it showed black against a silvery climbing phosphorescence that grew and grew.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC. From the entry difference

Meaning of silvery

1. adjective Resembling silver in color, shiny white.
2. adjective Sprinkled or covered with silver.
3. adjective Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.

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Questions about silvery in a sentence

How do you use silvery in a sentence?

Silvery is used as an adjective. For example: “Xeranthemums have silvery flower heads with purplish tubular flowers.”

What is a short sentence with silvery?

“a silvery laugh”

What does silvery mean?

Silvery means resembling silver in color, shiny white.