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How to use the word Shiny in a Sentence?

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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? ~ Jack Kerouac.

Jack Kerouac

added by Seth.Thomas.Winner
1 year ago

I hoped the Nature Medicine article on the genomic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 would settle this. But probably didn't get much visibility, i would not do anything about this right now. It is a shiny object that will go away in time.

Francis Collins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And when I was going through them -- there were around 12,000 animal bones -- I started to notice these bones that had a very different shape. It wasn't a natural shape. And they had sheen on them, and they were shiny, and they had striations( grooves or scratches) on them.

Emily Yuko Hallett

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Simply put, this isn’t a gimmick. It’s a workhorse, not a showhorse destined for a shiny garage filled with four other luxury cars. It’s not for never-nevers -- never tow, never haul – it’s for serious truck owners.

Ford CEO Jim Farley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Twenty years, even 10 years ago, you couldn't win a county wide election as a Republican, we were hit hard by North American Free Trade Agreement and we felt left out. ... And President Trump, who wasn't from the swamp, President Trump offered a shiny beacon.

Joe Bellino

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It kind of looked interesting and shiny, i just thought it might've been glass.

Kevin Kinard

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Tulsa rally's about him doing whatever he can to turn the page. He's not very good at much, but he does understand the power of the shiny symbol and how some folks' attention can be distracted immediately, he needed to find the area that he could put together a show which is what his entire presidency is about and that's why he picked New Hampshire.

Ray Buckley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Stop hiding the fact that you are extraordinarily infinite. You are shiny and sparkly.

Darren Huston

added by simon-pegg
3 years ago

In this interview Adrian Hill is like a magician who distracts the audience with one shiny object to detract you from the fact that Adrian Hill accomplice is picking your pocket.

William Haseltine

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We observed a shiny little blue bee grabbing the flower and rubbing its head on the top portion of the flower two or three times before moving on to another flower, in reading about this unique behavior we were pretty shocked to see it.

Chase Kimmel

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It doesn't mean we shouldn't try, but we're often looking for a magic bullet and the bright shiny object. Sometimes we need to just have the basics.

Thomas Frieden

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It would unfortunately be very uncharacteristic of the gaming community to stick to their guns on this issue for an extended period of time, gamers are largely consumers first and foremost, so game announcements and trailers are like dangling a shiny object in front of a cat.

Eli Jackson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Let's deal with that and not get caught in the shiny objects he's going to throw out.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Being close to the Moon was wonderful, but looking at Earth, it was this tiny little thing, blue and white and very shiny, it projected an aura of great fragility and the more you dig into it, the more you realize how fragile it really is.

Michael Collins

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The supply side of the economy looks a little less shiny in light of the decline in the participation rate.

Michael Feroli

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The shiny object is not so shiny anymore.

Randi Weingarten

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When requested by the family, the ombudsman has the right to enter the care facility and investigate, while they can't arrest, they can go in and start waving shiny lights into dark places and hopefully uncover and solve problems.

Joel Smith

Found on CNN
5 years ago

So there are always efforts whenever Ed Markey dealing with a serious issue like this, that people want to change the discussion and have everybody chanse another different shiny object, our job in the Senate, and it should have been the job of the FBI too, is to focus on those that are credible.

Gary Peters

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think all the personality of a character is in the eyes, and I don't like screen eyes -- I like them shiny and wet looking.

Tom Sapp

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I was in love with him as a friend. Like, I loved him as a friend, it was closer I’d say, in the first five years. And then, I think he’s the type of guy who’s into shiny objects. So later on, he wasn’t as into it.

Kathy Griffin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We're now on to the next shiny new object and that's earnings season, as long as companies beat earnings estimates, investors will feel comfortable buying stocks.

Paul Nolte

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Everyone wants bright and shiny.

Brett Miles

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There is no shiny object or silver bullet to this retailer set of challenges out there.

Pano Anthos

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Bernie Sanders came in with the luxury of being a complete long shot and just letting loose, i think Hillary Clinton came in with the both privilege -- and burden -- of being perceived as the frontrunner... You're always looking at the bright, shiny object that people haven't seen before -- that's a disadvantage to Hillary Clinton.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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