dull luster

The dull luster made you want to reach out and feel the hard surface.

Her allure and appeal has become a dull luster at best.

It has a dull luster and grayish green streak.

The hand-finished wood of the dash glistened with a dull luster.

Avoid all household cleaners that leave a greasy film on your floor and give the impression of a dull luster.

Blood splattered against the dark-red crystal, adding to its dull luster.

Physically, it has a hardness of about 6, a dull luster and appears gray in color but transparent.

Eyes tend to be small, narrow or sunken, dark brown or gray in color, with dull luster.

It was about eight inches square, and it shone with a dull luster like ivory.

It has a vitreous to dull luster.

The mineral is translucent with a white to pale pink streak and vitreous to dull luster.

It shone with a dull luster.

They gleamed in the light with a dull luster, and appeared to be made of some foreign stone that was heavily impregnated with metal.

Intent on restoring the gem’s dulled luster, Mr. Yavorskyy initially found the spinel trade tough going.

The steel of the spandau which Hals had set up pointing down the length of the trench gleamed with a dull luster.

Fresh crystals are black and display a vitreous to dull luster, while in altered pegmatites the crystals may be partially altered or etched.

Damage Condition Possible Causes Countermeasures Pitting has a dull luster and appears on the rolling element surface or raceway surface.

The dull luster was still in their eyes, but they were awake enough to mumble complaints at Towers who threatened them with another bucket of ice water if they tried to get up.

Last season's dulled luster of Crossroads may be attributed to a larger than foreseen falloff in state aid, with the result that some energies usually devoted to developing new works were diverted to raising new funds.

The walls of pale gray limestone looked silver against the sky, with the clean, dulled luster of metal, but a metal that had become a warm, living substance, carved by the most cutting of all instruments--a purposeful human will.

The head that hung above me seemed chiseled out of bone, sparse and cruel, the little eyes shining with the dull luster of a newly-broken, but unpolished stone, and between the eyes and nostrils the pits that served as radiation-sensing organs.

They are often visible in specimens of obsidian, pitchstone and rhyolite as globules about the size of millet seed or rice grain, with a duller luster than the surrounding glassy base of the rock, and when they are examined with a lens they prove to have a radiate fibrous structure.