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exhibit a play of colors like that of an opal
This nitrate opalesces under certain conditions -
reflect light or colors like an opal
raindrops caught in a sunbeam seem to opalesce
Distant clouds opalesce like pale brocade
How To Use opalesce In A Sentence
- This process helps combat the natural bitter flavour of the drink and releases its brilliant opalescent green colour.
- This nitrate opalesces under certain conditions
- A snow-scape in almost permanent semi-opalescent darkness decentres the authority of vision and brings into the foreground the sonic environment.
- Peter Carl Fabergé designer Mikhail Perkhin, workmaster Imperial Blue Serpent Egg Gold, blue guilloche enamel, opalescent white enamel, diamonds, sapphires 'Artistic Luxury': 100-Year-Old Bling
- The water in front of me beckons with the green-blue milky-white opalescence peculiar to reef shallows.
- The sun was not idle, and the steaming thaw washed the mud and foulness from the bergs till they blazed like heaped diamonds in the brightness, or shimmered opalescent-blue. CHAPTER 24
- Color trends on the horizon include the significant rise in the use of color ‘effects’ like metallics, opalescents and colors that change depending on the light sources.
- a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster
- They favour tiny miniskirts and opaquely opalescent tights, and have the ice-eyed look of Natashas and Laras who might at the drop of a dollar give a man more trouble than he could conceivably imagine.
- My opalescent kneecaps are somewhat bruised, and not in a good way.