How To Use Opaque In A Sentence

It appeared to be opaque glass, but it exuded the pungent fetor of magick. Sparks
The light is opaque, and the beach looks soft and European like a Monet view of the plage.
It floods the car with light and on a hot day there's a button that can turn it from transparent to opaque. Times, Sunday Times
These pumps have been around for years and as winter rolls in, the only way to wear them under trousers is in the darker colors (slightly scuffed), with opaque tights. Does the Shoe Fit? Finding the Perfect Flat
Known usually for somewhat opaque public statements, he ended his comment on the incident with a simple declarative: ‘Let the kids play.’

There is a growing perception that the decision-making is remote, opaque, and even undemocratic.
In the 1990s, however, as managerialism began to dominate the university, translucence and opaqueness replaced transparency.
Apply lightly for a sheer shimmer or layer it on generously for an opaque icy blue colour to brighten eyes. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, by invoking Nahuatl and speaking in tongues, he dramatizes the opaque materiality of language.
The once clear mountain stream is now polluted and opaque.
Most sphalerite crystals from the replacement orebodies are opaque, splendent black crystals - typically only the thinnest edges transmit light.
Representation is problematized by exposing its rhetoric as well as its more opaque meaning.
Paul vowed in an interview with The Hill last month that as chairman he would shine a light on the Fed's policies, which he called opaque and destructive. HUFFPOST HILL - Senate FAIL
No opaque or flowery language: it just did exactly what it said on the bottle. Times, Sunday Times
The rhetoric was wary and opaque, the mutual mistrust colossal. Times, Sunday Times
The pigments color the paint, make it opaque, and aid in UV resistance.
The near-opaque video quality and confessedly basic skill level don't make this an extra you'll get a lot of mileage out of.
The crystals range from nearly opaque through translucent to transparent.
Occasionally, they hold their hands out to the passing crowd asking for handouts, taking turns to sip an opaque liquid from a plastic container.
The logical chain leading from recovery from illness to an understanding of the animals' language is similarly opaque.
The hypertonicity of the radiopaque agent draws fluid into the bowel to facilitate passage and expulsion of the tenacious meconium.
The university has falsely combined these patently contradictory goals, making opaque the real differences between them.
He responded testily to questions about WikiLeaks's opaque finances, Private Manning's fate and WikiLeaks's apparent lack of accountability to anybody but himself, calling the questions "cretinous," "facile" and reminiscent of "kindergarten. NYT > Home Page
Buy your oil in opaque plastic or metal containers. Alternative Health Care for Women
The value of such a discovery was obvious from the first; and was still further enhanced by the discovery made shortly that, photographic plates are affected by the rays, thus making it possible to make permanent photographic records of pictures through what we know as opaque substances. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
The film of steam combined with the patina of dirt on the glass made them almost opaque.
An opaque sky of soft blues was joined by clouds of snowy white.
The transparent bisulphide, which is highly pervious to invisible heat, exercises on it the same absorption as the perfectly opaque solution. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
Light snow, much slush; the windshield is opaque in seconds.
I remember taking classes in Maori in New Zealand, where each lesson began with the recital of a ‘karakia’ or prayer, the meaning of which was often fairly opaque, but not only were we uttering ‘real’ Maori, the recital had a pleasing ritual effect. F is for First Lessons « An A-Z of ELT
Or it can be tinted by fusing colorful glass to the back of the tile so that it appears to have depth but is also opaque - a feature that no other type of tile can duplicate.
Actually, it's two varnishes - an opaque yellowy gold base coat and a see-through gold with glitter as the top coat.
The inconclusive finding was perhaps fitting for a man whose dealings in life were always opaque. Times, Sunday Times
It is intangible, opaque and difficult to understand. Times, Sunday Times
The panels resemble the facings of typical office buildings - and the factory plans to customize the film coating depending on how opaque the architect wants the glass to be.
Patients with a radiopaque ureteral stone who elect a conservative approach should be advised to have regular follow-up KUB radiographs at one - to two-week intervals.
Before the operation, the aneurysm's exact size and shape is measured using special radio-opaque dyes.
Opaque shampoos have different chemistries and may even affect the cuticle of the hair differently.
Replace them with opaque window film or blinds. Times, Sunday Times
McFarlane's interest in the metallurgy of mirrors has led her to denature the silvered surfaces behind the glass so that the mirrors become almost entirely opaque, yet hold and reflect light.
He turned back to the village and closely inspected its scattered ranks of gray houses; the windows were opaque and the doors sealed shut.
Increase the intensity of the colour by dampening your brush slightly before applying to give an opaque finish. The Sun
Yellow sunlight shines through the semi-opaque white plastic tank, and the lethal fluid within glows mysteriously.
This is the opaque, convoluted language quoted in the decision handed down four days ago by the current US Supreme Court.
The most basic elements in the narrative remain opaque. The Times Literary Supplement
Rain foamed on the hotel's harbour side lawn and produced a bank of hanging mist opaque as hill fog.
Contrast medium appears opaque on X-ray film, providing a clear outline of structures such as your digestive tract or blood vessels.
Never quite abstract, never entirely candid, always at a tangent to the world, Hodgkin is a strangely opaque painter.
Stephanie Prior said: Nexplanon has a new preloaded applicator which is designed to reduce the risk of insertion difficulties and it is radio-opaque so that it can be identified on an Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
But then again, it's exactly with such opaque language that committees like to dig their way out of trouble.
Painted in gouache, watercolor and acrylic, its surface varies from matte to shiny and its colors from transparent to opaque.
However, beautiful effects can be obtained under opaque or semiopaque glazes. 10. Decoration
Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal The Sarong Skirt: Pair a pareu with a chunky knit top The Sarong Skirt Layer an acid-color pareu under a chunky knit top with opaque tights and a funky sandal. Endless Summer
The back windows are consequently opaque with dog slobber and imprints of nostrils.
Authorities also introduced an open land tender system last year to improve market transparency, replacing often opaque land sales.
I say to the Minister that someone must have thought through what that means, but it is completely opaque to me.
The opaque mist on the horizon was drawing closer; the wind strengthening. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
The latter film is particularly memorable, with Udo Kier's Dr. Jekyll periodically excusing himself from his dinner guests (including Patrick Magee) to thrash about in a chemically-treated bath, emerging as the vicious rapist Mr Hyde (Gérard Zalcberg), whose knife-like phallus is digitally opaqued in the only uncut version of the film I've seen (from Japan). The Passing of a Eurocult Master
Typically, spines and stingers are radiopaque, so radiography or ultrasonography may be used to locate any remaining pieces.
You must choose your tights with care - they need to be opaque (as opposed to sheer) and of a high enough denier (thickness of the fabric) for the hairs not to show through.
Even with an all-public panel, arbitration is still an opaque process," according to a source inside FINRA, the brokerage industry's bought-and-paid-for "overseer. Phil Trupp: FINRA Proposes All-Public Dispute Panels
All right, so their influences are truly opaque: The Beatles, Beach Boys and Oasis, but they have written some corkers and given a new twist to bubblegum pop.
You could see them in their mud-clogged boots, with ill-fitting greatcoats and oversized rifles, filing off into an opaque horizon.
We have produced it of various hues and tints, from an opaque and ochrous yellow, to a colour the most brilliant, transparent, and deep. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
The usual choice is a solid-color opaque fabric, but you might consider a print lining under a plain color or even a patterned sheer.
The complex administrative arrangements render the decision - making process somewhat opaque.
The opaque-white decanters have gilt decoration applied to all the positions occupied by cutting on the colourless ones.
Out of them came only egg yolk and egg white, firm and opaque or runny and transparent to be sure, but never any sort of baby bird.
The pills are perfectly spherical, opaque, and shiny, like tiny pearls.
Traditionally, maiolica is earthenware with a lead-based glaze made opaque by tin oxide.
Although the house presents a somewhat fortified appearance to the street, with a wall of opaque glass blocks rather than ground-floor windows, inside it is flooded with daylight.
The eponymous stigmatic of Hansen's book may ultimately be opaque, too, but she is rendered in three dimensions, with sexual, psychic, and spiritual longings ambiguous but palpable.
Blood dripped from Charlie's nose and opaqued his faceplate. Who Do You Say I Am
Both plants and herbs can be stored in opaque glass storage jars with tight fitting lids. The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
Besides discouraging plant growth, the opaque toldo absorbs sunlight, becoming a huge radiant heater.
Some temples have gone so far as to stick women behind freshly erected opaque walls to separate the sexes.
What I mean by this is that I want the background image to appear, even when the content is there, rather than the content section being a plain opaque colour.
These surfaces include lacquered tabletops, glazed ceramic tile, untextured plastic, metal surfaces, photo paper, laminate countertops, opaque glass, and more.
In the cnidarians, chaetognaths, and ctenophores, the opaque gut wall was the surface measured.
Characters arrive encrusted with pages and pages of back story yet somehow manage to remain opaque. Times, Sunday Times
He worried endlessly, for he is far more insecure than the opaque hard man many imagine. Times, Sunday Times
Among the items that had become opaque were datelines and bylines, which were sometimes close to a lie.
These areas are of course the smallest, and seem to jump in front of the saw blade when cutting through opaque areas so that the labradorescent area is sliced at a bad angle.
The lapidarian patience she has expended in trimming, breathing upon, and polishing these bits of opaque cellophane betrays a concern that has less to do with art than with private worship and the embellishment of private fetishes with secret and arbitrary meanings. Portrait of An Artist
The warrior Coriolanus is perhaps the most opaque of Shakespeare's tragic heroes, rarely pausing to soliloquize or reveal the motives behind his prideful isolation from Roman society. Archive 2009-03-01
* The leaf, examined with a microscope at the instant we drew it up from the water, did not present, it is true, those conglobate glands, or those opaque points, which the parts of fructification in the genera of ulva and fucus contain; but how often do we find seaweeds in such a state that we cannot yet distinguish any trace of seeds in their transparent parenchyma. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
It is either transparent or opaque, matt, semimatt, glossy etc. without any particular colon 8. Preparation of glazes
In time, I refined and complicated the sand imagery by pressing the opaque sand into different densities and creating shadings.
It is important to remember that multivitamins with iron contain a smaller quantity of elemental iron and are therefore, less radiopaque than preparations such as ferrous sulfate and that partially dissolved tablets will not be as radiopaque as undissolved tablets. Iron Poisoning
The huge, opaque 1983 Unico Reserva is fat and grapy, with massive flavor concentration; an expansive, sweet, jammy, black currant fruitiness; spicy oak; and a long, robust, spicy finish. The World’s Greatest Wine Estates
On the lowest floor, a series of sliding wall panels and pocketed opaque glass doors allow for maximum flexibility.
The days when the markets automatically awarded premiums to politically connected but opaquely run family and state-controlled conglomerates are ending.
Most sovereign funds are opaque and highly secretive. Times, Sunday Times
It simply continued, going on towards infinity until finally the air itself was so thick as to be opaque.
Her variegated surfaces may be opaque or layered as transparent washes, glazed or scraped, scumbled, wiped down or sanded.
Awareness of the smooth page clouds the difference between varnished and unvarnished oil paint, between opaque and transparent watercolour.
The seamless style combines opaqueness, transparency and colour for geometric lingerie.
A popular form in the 1760s was the result of twisting opaque white or coloured glass into the stem, instead of air bubbles.
If all else fails, steam 12 ounces of boned, skinned sole fillets in a single layer until opaque but still moist-looking in the center, about 5 minutes.
The texture of the lipstick is lovely, not too opaque and with slight "wet" shimmer, which is exactly what I like. Weekend Beauty - Makeup: MAC Lavender Whip and
The poet seems to be experiencing a kind of existential crisis in a hostile, opaque, impenetrable and uninhabitable world.
It is a reddish brown sandstone formed by detrital quartz, plagioclase, feldspar and muscovite, with subordinate apatite, zircon and opaque minerals.
Redwood gazebos will look and perform best with the application of a transparent, semi-transparent or opaque finish.
Her variegated surfaces may be opaque or layered as transparent washes, glazed or scraped, scumbled, wiped down or sanded.
It was opaque, a milky white color, and was coarsely decorated with vitrifiable colors in Home Life in Colonial Days
These compositions, which set up intriguing architectonic relationships, consist of quasi-symmetrical configurations of flat, interlocking bands of opaque color, often blues and reds.
They had lost now almost entirely the yellowishness, metal look, and seemed to have more the quality of a gray opaque glass, or marble. The Girl in the Golden Atom
Of the shades I tried, Rose Boudoir and Rose Thé are the most opaque, which you can hopefully see in the swatches above.
But, the materials are anisotropic, so are opaque when viewed at ninety degrees to their transparent view, which means they could be used as magnetically switchable pixels in a flat display.
The building is clad in panels of opaque glass much thicker than usual, for this reason. Times, Sunday Times
His ground-floor windows are obscured with opaque glass and his back garden sacrificed for a larger kitchen. Times, Sunday Times
Apply lightly for a sheer shimmer or layer it on generously for an opaque icy blue colour to brighten eyes. Times, Sunday Times
Today I was wearing a pair of black opaque footless tights.
The removable lid of the two-chambered container supported the plant and was opaque.
Awareness of the smooth page clouds the difference between varnished and unvarnished oil paint, between opaque and transparent watercolour.
My face is too hawklike, too sharp and opaque in emotion to really be appealing.
In bulk, titania is an opaque white, a fortunate property enabling the phasing-out of toxic paints based on lead carbonate. Monkey metallurgical magic
Square -- half-a-mile distant they seemed, opaque haloes about a pin's point of flame, and people passing in the light of them loomed and vanished like the figures of a galanty-show. The Philanderers
Later, under Tang Ying (173649), the imperial craftsmen developed the elaborate famille rose palette of opaque overglaze enamels, which is distinguished by mixed colors and replacement of ferric oxide red by carmine derived from gold. 1796
The first 380,000 years after the big bang are opaque to conventional telescopes that use the electromagnetic spectrum. Times, Sunday Times
The work is viewed on a screen behind which drawings, puppets, and backdrops are illuminated using opaque and transparent projections.
Alternatively, you might replace transparent glass with the opaque frosted or acid-etched variety.
Time to hit the opaque tights. The Sun
Elegant opaque glass lights hang from the ceilings. Times, Sunday Times
Awareness of the smooth page clouds the difference between varnished and unvarnished oil paint, between opaque and transparent watercolour.
Glass from La Granja carried on many of the classic Venetian techniques such as latticinio (threads of opaque glass embedded in clear glass).
We stratified patients in each centre according to degree of obstruction and randomised them to treatment by consecutive sealed opaque envelopes.
Who, after all, can object to a less opaque tax system and sizzling summer sunshine? Times, Sunday Times
barium sulfate is radiopaque
Robineau used a semiopaque white glaze tinted with copper, which yields greens that range in tone from a pale opalescent turquoise to a stronger green on the cover, stand, and medallions.
The paint is buttery and opaque, crisp and decisive, and there appears to be very little underpainting.
One of the leading glass makers of the early 19th century classical revival in Bohemia was Count Von Buquoy, who, in 1817, successfully produced an opaque black glass that resembled Josiah Wedgwood's black basalt stoneware.
Drawings described simply as ‘watercolours’ are often found to be executed in a combination of both transparent and opaque pigments.
The little dab of opaque glue that attached the other end of the film to its spool yielded a second white form at the lower right.
Dave combines his love of the mountains with his artistic eye to compose striking images and Billy uses gouache - a method using opaque colours mixed with water, honey and gum - and specialises in paintings of birds, landscapes and plants.
Next in marbles were the sold colors, opaque or with a swirl through them. Childhood Games: Marbles and More « Colleen Anderson
This plated design also translates into cost savings for device manufacturers, as it requires less of the expensive radiopaque materials than welded models.
Shakespeare was an experimental writer whose business was ‘to present character in all its inaccessibility, in language at least as opaque as necessary’.
Redwood gazebos will look and perform best with the application of a transparent, semi-transparent or opaque finish.
The gargantuan black clouds were overcast by a dense, opaque fog, ever converging, camouflaged with the caliginous sky that surrounded.
Zircons extracted from this sample were typically prismatic, red to yellow-whitish in colour and translucent to opaque.
Steven Soderbergh's monumental two-movie portrait of Che Guevara has arrived: opaque and enigmatic enough, probably, to count as a "diptych". Film | guardian.co.uk
This utopian sentiment, patently present in the banausic sentimentality of lyrics in popular music, combines with the notion of uniform moral space to render the specificity of religious and political roles opaque.
I find conversation about football utterly opaque and uninteresting.
A chest radiograph showed multiple radiopaque scattered densities in both lung fields.
An eyeblink later he had opaqued his ZeroFear wireless wraparounds and downloaded his favorite politic-pundit vidblog. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Asas the contracting cloud becomes opaque to its own infrared radiation, its luminosity will drop abruptly.
The reception, to the rear of the ground floor hall space, is all white with one purple wall to create a slightly softer and more welcoming space than the daringly dark remainder of the scheme, with white desking and a giant mirror on the chimney breast; a contemporary take on a baroque frame in opaque acrylic. Manchester Square Interior by SHH
Elegant opaque glass lights hang from the ceilings. Times, Sunday Times
Inside each cabin, opaque walls are lined with soft suede-like material.
The mineral separates provided a population of euhedral, prismatic crystals, which are either transparent and colourless or chocolate brown and translucent to opaque.
He used his X-Acto knife to cut a new signature strip from a sheet of opaque paper.
Also, the curtains themselves are not completely opaque, so that the light shows through as two slightly blueish areas against the blackness.
This is the only way one can reasonably explain the numerous grammatical and spelling errors, logical non sequiturs, inaccuracies, misquotes, opaque prose, and prolific use of jargon that clutter almost every page.
In 1983 stay-up's appeared in beautiful designs: matt, opaque, shimmering, transparent, semi-opaque, fine-meshed, woolen and silken.
The smooth fabric surface is alternately hermetically opaque during the day and eerily translucent after dark; at night the entire structure glows and pulsates like a giant jellyfish.
I find her poetry rather opaque.
There was also smog, or haze, or some version of atmospheric opaqueness for which the International Olympic Committee has yet to invent a word.
The complex administrative arrangements render the decision - making process somewhat opaque.
Her window on the outside world is now opaque. Times, Sunday Times
In the "Transformation Situation Room" next to the T.C. Williams front office, groups of teachers and administrators have worked overtime this spring, contemplating opaquely worded mandates -- posted on the wall -- that direct them to "provide operational flexibility" and "create community-oriented schools. Alexandria's T.C. Williams High hustles to get off urgent-reform list
Although most of the beryl is fractured and opaque, a few transparent crystals have been found.
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The payday loans business is notoriously opaque, with more than 200 firms targeting consumers who are struggling to pay their bills. Times, Sunday Times
Traditionally, tubing made from plastics with colorants, radiopaque materials, and other additives requires compounding before it is extruded.
The once clear mountain stream is now polluted and opaque.
In conformity with the 16 th-century recipes, the opaque white glass is coloured and opacified by small tin oxide crystals within a glass which is rich in lead.
We found the emergency release latches around the opaqued chest cavity of the mech, following the seam just above the window slit. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The country's legendary bureaucracy is as labyrinthine as ever, and its legal system opaque, with separate laws for foreign and domestic investors.
He believed that there do exist necessary connections in nature, even though these connections are opaque to human understanding.
The circular pattern is hand-embossed and quilted on totes and soft portfolio clutches in red, blue, pastel, black and white in patent leather, lacquered calfskin or a semi-opaque Nappa leather. Fresh Picks: Fashion News
It is the relatively opaque idioms which tend to be fairly rigid in their form.
Replace them with opaque window film or blinds. Times, Sunday Times
Grisaille enamelware obtains a design in light and shade by painting over an opaque white background in one colour.
The Federal Reserve chairman is famous for his opaque remarks and abstruse topics.
A shorthand system such as the Banff system is completely opaque to nonspecialists.
During the period leading up to the last Russian election in 2008, claims that Putin owned a package of shares from Surgutneftegas, Gazprom, and gas-trader Gunvor -- an opaquely structured company registered in Switzerland, and run by Putin acquaintance (or friend, depending on whom you ask) Gennady Timchenko -- were widely printed in the world media, although they were flatly denied by the Gunvor top brass. Matvey Ganapolskiy: Imagine That! Putin Might Not Be So Pure After All.
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Instead of shedding a light on the wheeling and dealing surrounding player payments and transfers, they actually make it more opaque. Times, Sunday Times
For both mutations the median and modal values were 25% opaque.
Companies claim that this led to excessive and opaque fees, questionable valuations of their assets and being unnecessarily forced out of business. Times, Sunday Times
He decorated glass of at least six colours: clear, opaque and opaline white, green, amethyst and several shades of blue.
No opaque or flowery language: it just did exactly what it said on the bottle. Times, Sunday Times
But in infant monkeys wearing an opaque contact lens, this changes.
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And for vision it is also necessary that there should be visual purple behind the retina and an opaque cornea and iris.
But in infant monkeys wearing an opaque contact lens, this changes.
A process for making the deflection member comprises curing a coating of a liquid photosensitive resin supported by a forming surface through a mask having a pattern of transparent and opaque regions.
Opaque regulations and a recent government price freeze on public utilities, including water, are also red flags.
Most use a combination of transparent and opaque watercolors, and their original works are about twice the size of the printed plates.
Specific wavelengths are absorbed as light passes through a transparent gem or is reflected from the surface of an opaque gem.
The whole place has an otherworldly quality that is partly due to the opaque glass in the windows. Times, Sunday Times
A bodysuit emblazoned with stars, appears alongside 70s style pinstripe suits and spaghetti strap dresses which are either opaque and bold, or plain black and transparent.
On close inspection, the soft trail of graphite seems almost molten in contrast to the opaque gouache.
opaque to X-rays
X - ray examination of the bile ducts following administration of a radiopaque contrast medium.
Both plants and herbs can be stored in opaque glass storage jars with tight fitting lids. The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
This is because goalball players can't see, and if they can - even traces of light - darkness is ensured by eye patches and a great big pair of opaque goggles.
And now my chains are to be broken; I shall mount above these clouds and opaque airs in which I live, opaque, though they seem transparent, and from the heaven of truth I shall see and comprehend my relations. X. Essays. The Poet. 1844
With no iris or pupil present, the milky orb shone opaquely with a paranormal light.

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