How to Use shiner in a Sentence

shiner

noun

• He got a shiner during a fight at school.
• The eye sported a shiner, and the ear was crusted with blood.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 14 May 2017
• One of them is the blacktail shiner, which lives in parts of the Southeast, Midwest and in Texas.
  — April Reese, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2014
• There’s a bright shiner lighting up the heavens these warm late-spring evenings.
  — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 20 May 2017
• Norm whispers that we’re being gouged by the shiner prices.
  — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2020
• Not to mess with Texas or anything, but this bock would give Shiner a shiner.
  — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2019
• Two years later, a group made of many of the same players was more equipped to take the kind of shiner the Broncos put on them, and keep the train moving.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• Heather reveals her shiner, and what sure look like scratches on her arms.
  — oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2022
• Three new fish species have been found in the river: the sand shiner, golden shiner and longnose gar.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Nov. 2021
• Emerald shiner minnows are a top bait for bass and perch, but very hard to find at local bait shops.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 16 Aug. 2019
• The best fishing required a bit of wind to lure the perch to their crappie rings tipped with emerald shiner minnows.
  — cleveland, 20 May 2021
• There were dark circles under my eyes that looked like shiners.
  — Jenna Birch, Health.com, 20 May 2020
• The lines were baited with spawn sacs, shiner minnows or large fatheads.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2018
• As for Tom, some photos of him looking bedraggled and sporting a shiner were making the rounds last week.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2021
• Once the trout start to come up the Grand River, said Moore, the trout prefer a small caribou jig in an emerald shiner minnow pattern.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2020
• The next brightest shiner is Vega, showing off its brilliance in the high eastern sky.
  — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 3 June 2017
• With that, Steyer had earned his spurs, complete with a pair of shiners to exhibit to the resistance.
  — Max Abelson, Bloomberg.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Some take the trade to a whole new level: A shiner in Tokyo offers a flute of champagne during his hourlong sessions.
  — Sara Aridi, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
• Volunteer bike paramedic Judith Treviño checks the blood pressure of a shoe shiner who works in the main square.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
• Bronzebacks might chase down a damselfly one minute, grab a cricket, or nail a skittering shiner the next.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• The bluegills are hitting tiny jigs tipped with maggots or waxworms, while the perch prefer emerald shiner minnows.
  — cleveland.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• Emerald shiner minnows and crayfish worked close to the river bottom in deeper pools are best for tempting bass to bite.
  — cleveland, 28 Apr. 2022
• In the fall of 2021, the commission stocked catchable size catfish, bluegill, shad, shiners and other baitfish to create a forage base for game fish.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 18 June 2023
• Nolan’s shiner: Third baseman Nolan Arenado received a double shot of pain in the first inning.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 21 May 2017
• That total includes about 645 game fish, such as bass or sunfish, and a large number of small, non-game fish, such as shiners and minnows and the slackwater darters.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al.com, 5 June 2019
• The classic hardwater presentation for walleyes is a ¼ oz rattle spoon dressed with the front half of a minnow or shiner.
  — Outdoor Life, 20 Nov. 2019
• Checker Warren Rychel wore a nasty shiner around his left eye because of Brendan Shanahan’s stick.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2022
• The shiner was courtesy of a tough Texas elbow shortly after tipoff that served notice that unlike most of this season, the Huskies weren’t going to get anything easy from the No.
  — USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2018
• Smallmouth anglers are casting tube jigs, drop shot rigs and live bait rigs with crayfish or shiner minnows around structure in 24 to 28 feet of water.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 21 June 2019
• Red-bellied dace can be an important food in one river, while the common shiner means chow-time in another.
  — A.j. McClane, Field & Stream, 24 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024