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Example sentences for "shinny"

Lexicographically close words:
shining; shiningly; shinings; shinned; shinning; shins; shinty; shiny; ship; shipboard
  1. If I could get 'em open the lil girl under the seat could shinny up the wall and that would be one out, 'tannyrate.

  2. You can crawl out on the top of the car and then shinny your way up to us.

  3. THE CLUBS The golf clubs are something like shinny sticks in shape, but modified and better made, as the ball must be driven more accurately and much farther.

  4. The wreath was hoisted on the end of a shinny stick and marched through the corridor to the tune of "John Brown's Body," while Mademoiselle ineffectually wrung her hands and begged for quiet.

  5. They were silent while the bartender slopped a glass full of bluish liquid in front of Shinny and the bottle of Martian fizz and a glass in front of Roger.

  6. Shinny smiled his toothless smile and looked at Tom.

  7. I wouldn't trust Shinny as far as I could throw a comet!

  8. Roger and Shinny drew numbers one and three.

  9. Meantime, Astro, you and Shinny and Alfie get below and see how much fuel we have in emergency supply.

  10. Shinny followed him, a curious gleam in his eyes.

  11. Tom, Roger, Astro, Alfie, and Mr. Shinny gathered in a close circle around the major on the control deck of the Polaris and watched him as he drew several rough diagrams on a piece of paper.

  12. It had taken Connel four hours to find where Shinny had hidden the bottle of rocket juice!

  13. They were unloading the first reactor unit, with Astro and Shinny digging the hole.

  14. Illustration: Mason was frozen into a rigid statue, unable to move] Loring marched meekly in front of Shinny to the storage room that had held Roger.

  15. Shinny stepped back, and Astro began covering up the lead box.

  16. Tom and myself, Astro and Roger, and Shinny and Alfie.

  17. The bartender nodded, and Shinny turned back to Roger.

  18. Astro, Tom, Roger, Alfie, and Shinny walked silently into the room.

  19. It was a new yellow shinny stick, broad and heavy and almost as long as the boy who carried it.

  20. Don, the big boy who had played shinny and vacant-lot baseball with him, whom he had never seen but with a dirty shirt and unkempt hair!

  21. Then it was that the new shinny stick vindicated itself.

  22. Shinny as played on Union Hill in the nineties had none of the refinements of its dignified cousin, field-hockey.

  23. As he passed through the hall Neale lingered a moment to handle the shinny stick again.

  24. His first step had been the organization of the shinny club.

  25. And this was hardly to be wondered at, for shinny in the snow upon the roadway in front of the school was none too exciting.

  26. He had caught for them in many a close base-ball match; he had saved their goal in many a fierce shinny fight with the Front; and while he had ruled them with an iron rule, he had always treated them fairly.

  27. And I am going to play shinny with those boys, and if I can help them to win that match, and the big game of life, I will do it.

  28. Hughie was made captain of the shinny team, and set himself, under the master's direction, to perfect their combination and team play.

  29. Finally Shinny announced dinner and they fell to with gusto.

  30. Refusing to allow them to get near Molly, Shinny began pushing food into slots, compartments, turning on switches and punching buttons.

  31. Strong had listened to Shinny fill in the background of Bull Coxine with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

  32. Nicholas Shinny was a retired spaceman who had taken part in his last adventure to Alpha Centauri, and was a good friend of Strong's and the Polaris unit.

  33. Nothing illegal, but as Shinny himself put it, 'just bending the code a little, not breaking it.

  34. Strong and the boys felt that Shinny would let them know when he was ready.

  35. Strong was silent and Shinny turned to the cadets.

  36. Shinny had always operated on the edge of the space code.

  37. Shinny sprawled in his chair, lit his pipe, then looked at his guests, his eyes twinkling.

  38. Shinny lived comfortably in a small house made of Titan crystal, enjoying himself during the day catching Venusian fatfish and watching the stereos at night.

  39. Shinny grew reflective and knocked the ashes out of his pipe before he answered.

  40. Whack Pozzy and Boog Chadwick, Dutchy Semans, Nigger Bell Pop Clark, Shinny Thing and Pile Wood all come down with saws and axes and helped us saw that wood, we worked all the afternoon and got it done and piled up before dark.

  41. Mr. Watson was the ticket man and he let me and Beany and Shinny Thing in free.

  42. We should say to Europe: "Shinny on your own side of the water and we will shinny on our side.

  43. He thought he would go for a while and play shinny with them; but they were not long playing shinny when they fell out, and the weakest of them caught him and shook him as he would a child.

  44. He stayed a while with them, and after that he thought that he would go home to his own kingdom; and when he was going past a great palace that was there he saw twelve men playing at shinny over against the palace.

  45. One day Manus, son of Oireal, and his cousin, the son of Iarlaid, called to their foster brothers, and bade them come and play a game at shinny in the great field near the school where they were taught all that princes and nobles should know.

  46. Now there lived in a town a few miles off a soldier who had three sons, fine youths and strong, and the best players at shinny in that country.

  47. Shinny This is a good game for boys and girls.

  48. Why don't we fell a smaller tree, brace it against the sycamore, and shinny up to find out?

  49. Just cut one of these smaller trees, brace it against the crotch of the sycamore, and shinny up it," Melinda asserted.

  50. Hero knocks father's kneecap shinny ball west as meteor to explode in mountains.

  51. That bone is from your father, and so is the bone they play shinny with.

  52. The people playing shinny did not see me.

  53. They played shinny with the dead man's kneecap.

  54. The ordinary Mohave shinny stick is a yard long and definitely bent at the end.

  55. They had short shinny sticks, nearly straight, not long and curved.

  56. When I got it I went back to my house and struck it to the west with my shinny stick.

  57. You let your imagination shinny on the side of your desires for a few hours, and then you decide.

  58. All I wanted was for him to get away from the tree so I wouldn't have to be too near him, and then I'd shinny down and hit the trail for camp.

  59. I decided to shinny up a tree that was there and see if I couldn't squint our camp over in the west, because if I could once see it, maybe I'd be able to get to it by a shorter way than by the path.

  60. First I thought I'd just shinny down and run and maybe he wouldn't follow me.

  61. So if I could only just throw the other chop into the doorway he'd go in there after it, and while he was eating it I'd shinny down in a hurry and shut the door and wedge a board against it.

  62. It was while he was working on that job that his brain took a vacation; and it was your shinny game, the doctors say, that saved him from the insane asylum.

  63. Shinny was a new game to him and he was stuck on it.

  64. When he got tired of that I organized a shinny game, with an umbrella and a cane for sticks, and a couple of wicker chairs for goals.

  65. A man who would compare golf with shinny is capable of contrasting Venice with a drainage canal, and I came near telling him so.

  66. Yes, sir, shinny is a great game, and all boys should play it," and he rubbed the scar on his nose tenderly.

  67. That came from a crack with a shinny club when I was not more than ten years old.

  68. If you never get it until you beat me at this shinny game you will wait a long time," he declared.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shinny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    checkers; chess; climb; game; mount; ramp; scale; shin; sport; surmount