adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hair
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He had a lot of straight, silvery hair .
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She wore a nightgown, and her silvery hair streamed free over her shoulders.
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Dennis's voice was soft like a whisper, like his silvery hair .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a silvery laugh
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Salmon have pink flesh and silvery skin.
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Small silvery fish darted through the shallow water of the creek.
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The hills looked silvery in the moonlight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But one moonlit night, when the aging Oriental Fedallah is in the lookout, a silvery jet is seen far ahead.
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Cornish said the guayule shrub, which has silvery green leaves, has long been viewed as a possible source of latex.
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I am meeting Enya and the Ryans somewhere near her carefully guarded Killiney residence on a silvery wet and foggy autumn day.
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In the distance now she could see a big silvery building.
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It was tall and slender and silvery .
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The river birch trees spread their silvery shade over the slate walkways.
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Then from her robe she took another chip, silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others.
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This is a silvery gray fish with five black bars, the first of which passes through the eye.