(v. i.) To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night.
(v. i.) To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver.
(v. i.) To be effulgent in splendor or beauty.
(v. i.) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation.
(v. t.) To cause to shine, as a light.
(v. t.) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them.
(n.) The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen.
(n.) Sunshine; fair weather.
(n.) A liking for a person; a fancy.
(n.) Caper; antic; row.
(v. i.) Shining; sheen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
(2) The NYT article further shines further light into this murky affair, in which both News International and the Metropolitan Police have so far been evasive, to say the least."
(3) So, at the end of her life, Williams, with other Hillsborough families, was recognised not as part of some Liverpool rabble but as a shining example: an everyday person embodying the extraordinary power and depth of human love.
(4) In a country crisscrossed from sea to shining sea by some of the world’s longest and most famous roads, what could be more simple?
(5) It's ironic given this sector is the one shining beacon of potential growth and job creation.
(6) Yes, Shine, the company she set up after a controversial departure from Sky, was helped by an output deal with that branch of the family firm.
(7) A world of hidden wealth: why we are shining a light offshore Read more However, the Nahmad lawyers have also insisted that because the painting is not in New York and the IAC is based in Panama, the court case should not be allowed to proceed in the US.
(8) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
(9) What we need is international action now, and that’s precisely what we are doing today with real concrete action in the war against tax evasion.” He said the transparency rules on beneficial ownership showed that Britain and other governments were working to shine a spotlight on “those hiding spaces, those dark corners of the global financial system”.
(10) Murdoch is chief executive and chairman of Shine, one of the UK leading independent production companies; Hoberman is a non-executive director of the Guardian Media Group, which also publishes MediaGuardian.co.uk; and Highfield now has a senior role at Microsoft.
(11) But no one was looking, as the sun was simply shining too brightly for HMV.
(12) The current IRS controversy does not excuse sham political organizations masquerading as social welfare organizations, and shines a light on the critical need for campaign spending disclosure legislation.
(13) There was a decision to preference a new entrant into the WA political field, an Australian Aboriginal, who happens to be a member of the National Party, and to symbolically, I suppose, display him in the preference list … Where possible, where we see shining stars in individual parties, like Scott, or this guy from the Nats, we should individually preference them higher.
(14) "Right now the sun is shining and it's totally quiet – normally there is a lot of wind.
(15) A safety net to catch those fallen on hard times, come rain or shine, boom or bust, it would be there for all those who had paid in.
(16) Shine waited 18 hours before she could see her baby for the first time and reflected on how Google Glass could have been used in those initial 18 hours to ease some of her apprehensions and fears.
(17) The events in Carlisle shine a rather different light on the problems facing BHS than its bosses have outlined.
(18) A DfE spokesman says: "We are shining a light on the performance of local authorities on a whole range of different indicators which need to be considered jointly.
(19) For me, the shining example of hope and freedom on Lesvos is not its statue but its people.
(20) Yet all agreed that the more diverse the routes into a legal career the better, because at least once people from diverse backgrounds were in they had the chance to shine.
Shoeshine
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) They’re from the Munecas region and they’ve come to La Paz to work as shoeshiners.
(2) KS Shoeshiners are one of the most stigmatised groups in society in La Paz.
(3) In return, the shoeshiners take part in weekly workshops on subjects ranging from human rights and education to first aid.
(4) As one of very few young girls working as a shoeshiner, she disguised herself as a boy.
(5) KS It was this stigma around shoeshiners that prompted Jaime Villalobos to start Hormigón Armado.
(6) JV And what became very important and very clear for me was that support that society gives these kids and that is very representative in the masks that the shoeshiners wear.
(7) All have realised the importance of school and are keen to attend, so why is there such a negative profiling of shoeshiners?
(8) She’s taking me to meet some of the children who work as shoeshiners in the city centre.
(9) Recent events in Shanghai’s stock markets have been all too reminiscent of the tales that have entered American folk memory from the days of the Wall Street crash in 1929: of stock-tipping shoeshine boys, exhausted traders, and ticker-tape machines spooling late into the night.
(10) Wearing balaclavas and carrying wooden boxes filled with polish and brushes, shoeshiners are reviled by many as drug addicts and criminals, but their story is more often one of poverty, child labour, violence and homelessness.
(11) Every two months, 5,000 newspapers funded by advertising are printed and given free to shoeshiners, who sell them to the public for four Bolivianos (about 35p).
(12) Walking the cobbled streets of Bolivia 's capital with scuffed or dirty shoes attracts a lot of attention from the hundreds of shoeshiners who work along the city's streets and plazas.
(13) KS In fact all the shoeshiners I spoke to attend school almost on a daily basis.
(14) But alcoholism isn’t only a problem with shoeshiners, across all types of jobs that problem exists.
(15) Mohammed and Mohammed, 12 and 16, are working as shoeshine boys.
(16) shoeshiner Juan José Poma, 33, says in an interview published in a recent issue.
(17) As a child she worked doing various jobs and eventually she became a shoeshiner in La Paz.
(18) Eighty-four-year-old Blatt, one of two plaintiffs who survived the camp, managed to stay alive by working as a shoeshine boy to the camp commandant before escaping in October 1943.
(19) Bolivia's informal economy includes everyone from bricklayers to farmers to shoeshiners, who work without contracts and set schedules.
(20) It is also a story you can read in the newspaper sold by a small group of shoeshiners to supplement their income.