iridescence

How To Use iridescence In A Sentence

• A sparkling phosphorescence blossomed out through the water from where they hit the water, and the pool was lit with a strange iridescence.
• However, she had the charm, and those who feared her were also fond of her; the fear and the fondness being perhaps both heightened by what may be called the iridescence of her character -- the play of various, nay, contrary tendencies. Daniel Deronda
• There's no sham there; no deception -- except the iridescence, which is, as you doubtless know, an optical illusion attributable to the intervention of rays of light reflected from microscopic corrugations of the nacreous surface. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
• The metathorax transversely rugose; the pectus, and coxæ at their base within, black; wings brown, with a violet iridescence, their base rufo-hyaline; the intermediate and posterior tibiæ with a double row of spines, all the tarsi spinose. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
• A pointless attention had been paid to the particularities of their plumage, their iridescence, and so on. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
• a sparkling aqua from a manicurist, in other words someone who knows how a varnish should handle and finish: clean, clear as the Mediterranean Sea and very pretty with just the right iridescence to lift it. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• Renaissance artists used paints and glazes that got their appealing color and iridescence from nanoparticles.
• He was beautiful and talked in stirring iridescence. ADRIFT • by Andrew S. Fuller
• Most of the Lunarians wore ordinary garments, although their styles of it-upward-flared collars, short cloaks, dagged skirts, pectoral sunbursts, insignia of phyle or family, colors, iridescences, inset glitterlights, details more fanciful still-would have been florid were it not as natural on them as brilliance on a coral snake. The Stars Are Also Fire
• The shells of the awabi, or 'sea-ear,' which reaches a surprising size in these western waters, are converted by skilful polishing and cutting into wonderful dishes, bowls, cups, and other articles, over whose surfaces the play of iridescence is like a flickering of fire of a hundred colours. º18 Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series