Voorbeelden van sheen

• Its blocks of text are in a small, elegant font, set off by ample white paper with a lush, pearly sheen.

• At different times we dwell on transparency and sheen, and in particular are very much concerned with the relative propensities of silk, cotton and polyester.

• But the aqueous is not only a question of surface sheen and light.

• The bureaucracy had lost its sheen.

• Sheen found that of all types of feedback, recasts were most frequent, accounting for more than half of all feedback instances in all four settings.

• Water makes itself known by its collateral effects - its boundedness within a vessel, a captured sheen or reflection, a buoyancy and loss of gravity.

• This cold, matter-of-fact cohesion gives his tale an impenetrable sheen; surely it was this tone, successfully sustained, that made even the author's 'hair stand on end'.

• The majority concerned the sighting of oil-like sheens in the wakes of suspect ships and almost all were reported by other vessels or aircraft.

• There was talk about a light sheen over one or two of the cages.

• Much of the pollution at sea is in the form of sheens but there are also patches of thicker oil.

• Much of the pollution at sea is in the form of sheens, but there are also patches of thicker oil.

• Plumage is typically dark with a metallic sheen.

• The 70/30 is tightly woven, has an elegant sheen and drapes nicely, but is still quite soft and light-weight.

• These fossils, noted for their exquisite preservation, including soft tissue, body outline and even colour sheen on beetle wings, are notoriously difficult to preserve.

• Vermilion has one important defect; it is liable to darken, or develop a purplish-gray surface sheen.