diaphanous

How To Use diaphanous In A Sentence

• The first glimpse of what a London Olympics would look like reveals an 80,000-seater stadium with diaphanous roof sections resembling giant insect wings.
• The house, too, is filled with colour and texture: gold, glitter, satin, lace, feathers, and yards of diaphanous fabric.
• There, also, he caught a glimpse of himself as an obscure, diaphanous man reflected on the glass; his transposed image was cast amongst the wide residential street-the adjacent and similarly designed homes, the xeriscaped lawns-backlit by a table lamp but also illumed in that frozen vapor which brightened the night, that curious downpouring which smothered the gravel-laden property and changed his Suburban Half-Ton LS from sandalwood metallic to an almost solid white. 'The Post-War Dream'
• Her love was veiled, as it were, in a most delicate, most diaphanous mist, which took from it all earthliness, and left it intangible, magical as some gift from fairyland. The Making of a Soul
• She was wearing her black dress with the diaphanous lace on the shoulders the crescent of the chemise neckline showing underneath and with a nicely cut silk bertha hanging down from the edge of the lace. The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
• In the highest, is the so-called neritic zone, -- the oceanic surface, diaphanous and luminous, far from any coast. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
• They are not at ease in a French garb, -- nor, for that matter, in any other than their own diaphanous, sun-tinted, vowelly Provençal, unless they could find their expression in some _folk-speech_, as the The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
• He sits on a tasseled throne and wears vestments consisting of a diaphanous white rochet and red skullcap: he is Francesco della Rovere, Pope Sixtus IV. Delizia!
• Illuminated only by the fire, her figure shrouded in diaphanous clothes, she drifted in a nimbus of copper light.
• He moves in at super-speed as a mere blur to insert his palps at this vital point, and one registers their union only as an instantaneous flux of diaphanous limbs. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk