How To Use Translucent In A Sentence

The 52 cm high sculpture is carved in translucent Egyptian alabaster and represents a royal female of the Amarna Period, between 1350-1334 B.C.
After our eyes adjust, we find the walls to be a gorgeous translucent blue, the surface scalloped into smooth, symmetrical wavelets.
It would have been dark except for the light coming from the translucent side panels.
Chop the half onion thinly and fry under low heat so that it becomes soft and translucent. Times, Sunday Times
Males tend to wear armor suits in shiny silver colors that covered their chests and private spots, while females dressed up with silk-like materials covering them from head to toe that were part translucent with a wide variety of tints.

Its futuristic design features wind turbines instead of the traditional minarets, while a translucent latticed roof would replace the domes seen on most mosques.
In an effort to keep pests off the parsnips we began cloaking the beds with Agrofabric, a translucent, permeable rowcover made of woven fiberglass.
Bathed in natural light, underscored by blonde wood, and translucent glass partitions.
But now the first of five translucent duplex and triplex apartments in the building at 1055 Park Ave. has just gone into contract at what brokers say was a distressed price for the prime location — less than $1,850 a square foot. Glass Condo, Rock-Bottom Price
This would be better with some sort of backplate or translucent filling for the laser to shine on or through. Aurora Watch Concept by Jihun Yeom » Yanko Design
The branchia is translucent white with brown spots and white-tipped brown pinnules.
The air—"translucent as wine," hymned one poet—quickens the heart. City of Peace—and War
While I had been sleeping the light outside became translucent. Times, Sunday Times
The Man-of-War floats on a gas-filled, blue to pink, translucent body called a pneumatophore.
It was translucent and obviously a ghost or a close variation of a specter, bowing at the young scientist courteously.
The steel frame is wrapped in thin sheets of translucent polycarbonate cladding that gently diffuses light like a fragile membrane of rice paper.
Our home base was a huge glowing translucent submarine, shaped like a blimp.
The atmospherics and mood seem less translucent than ever and the fact nobody can work out exactly what's happening in front of them, leaves the intriguing sense of curiosity and desire to see more.
Take out the pancetta pieces, add a slug of olive oil and sweat the shallots until they are soft and translucent. Times, Sunday Times
The crystals range from nearly opaque through translucent to transparent.
I closed the sliding windows, with translucent paper for window panes, called shoji, and went to bed, but the lack of privacy was fearful, and I have not yet sufficient trust in my fellow-creatures to be comfortable without locks, walls, or doors! Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
The belemnites sampled in this study were mostly translucent and retained the primary concentric banding that characterizes belemnite rostra.
Try applying a little translucent powder to lips after your lipstick. The Sun
It is most beautiful, appearing translucent with a light corn silk color and streaks of black in its grainy looking material.
For extra hold pat translucent powder or matching powder shadow on top. The Sun
Whereas most walls were brick or concrete, her wall was made of a translucent stone.
It has a juicy, translucent flesh with a similar taste to a lychee.
I was happy to sit and look at the stuff floating around me; the minute translucent jellyfish, ctenophores and arrowfish.
But beneath the translucent ivory skin, he was rather bronzed, due to the long hours under the sun.
As his eye gives the impression of floating over the landscape, his liking for gouache over a pastel ground give what David Britton calls ‘an ethereal quality, where translucent layers of colour float over a solid base’.
The lipsticks, eye shadows, blushes and translucent powder in this kit will help transform your looks in no time.
Made in two formulations, normal to dry and normal to oily, this translucent powder will mattify and give your skin an even-toned appearance. Makeup Minute
A completely irrational white translucent roof undulates over the space like a gentle cloud, or the sky seen from under water on a pellucid day.
These rocks also stirred with novel species of eyeless shrimp, white crabs, translucent sea anemones and large, pink fish.
Players bought a translucent anglerfish at six times the rate of other sea creatures, using an imaginary currency people get by playing the game. Virtual Products, Real Profits
Furnished sparely with two easels and several chairs to underscore the physical proximity of the artists when they inhabited the studio together, it was enclosed by gauzy translucent walls so that it could be peered into but not entered.
That this is merely surface coloring is shown by the fact that hydro-chloric acid will discharge the color and leave the grains translucent. The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890
The thick, translucent slices were encased in a light batter that was appropriately oily.
Through his translucent skin showed the blue veins, his insides as visible and vulnerable as a tiny transparent shrimp.
So far, so predictable, but its huge flanks are encased in a delicately ribbed translucent skin that scintillates arrestingly with both natural and artificial light.
Steel pole, fibreglass ribs, colorful crystal handle, colorful nylon cloth cover, translucent plastic film packing, both for rainy and sunny use.
Here and there, indeed, were smooth patches which we called bowling-greens, but hard and slippery as polished marble, with much the same translucent appearance. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Add onion, fennel, and garlic, and cook until onion is translucent; be careful not to burn garlic.
If not an error on the same scale as Ballantyne's famous unhusked coconuts, the translucent Pacific water is clearly a high-order inaccuracy.
Other marketplace standards that made the ‘Workspheres’ cut include bewitching Apple computer products, such as a translucent, sculpturesque G4 Cube computer and a highly desirable, wafer-thin, oversized monitor.
I love the way silk catches the light and becomes translucent. Times, Sunday Times
Most natural corundum is of industrial quality, but transparent to translucent varieties with their adamantine to vitreous luster potentially yield gemstones.
It is a fine place to dream in, with falls, cascades, cool rocks lined with hypnum three inches thick; shaded with maple, dogwood, alder, willow; grand clumps of lady-ferns where no hand may touch them; light filtering through translucent leaves; oaks fifty feet high; lilies eight feet high in a filled lake basin near by, and the finest libocedrus groves and tallest ferns and goldenrods. The Yosemite
On the top floor, the dragon is in the air, with writhing translucent light-filled ceilings and walls curvaceously sculpted to make benches, cupboards and seats.
A translucent head which was little more than a gelatinous bag closed over the mayor's head like a caul.
A shallow gabled roof covered with translucent fiberglass shelters the area from rain and drizzle without blocking the light.
On top of it all was a flimsy, translucent material embedding the palm trees picture.
Observe that it is colorless and either transparent or translucent, and when poured from one vessel to another is glairy and more or less adhesive. A Practical Physiology
Slice the onions and brown in the oil in a non-stick frying pan, adding the mushrooms when the onions have become translucent and light brown. The Sun
His flesh as unsubstantial as cobwebs, veins and arteries, tendons and muscles all clear beneath the ethereal shine of translucent skin. Earl of Durkness
The unusual roof, which is made of a translucent fiberglass fabric, allows for natural grass, which players appreciate.
Dice the sweet onion and cook in a pan in olive oil until translucent and soft. Times, Sunday Times
His paintings are full of erasures, redrawn lines and strokes partially covered with translucent white paint.
Oriental alabaster, the alabastrites of the classical writers, is a translucent marble (calcium carbonate) obtained from stalagmitic deposits; because of its usually banded structure, which gives it some resemblance to onyx, it is also called onyx marble, or simply, though incorrectly, onyx. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
These rocks also stirred with novel species of eyeless shrimp, white crabs, translucent sea anemones and large, pink fish.
Badly mixed oil paints become translucent with age and the artist's 'pentimenti', or alterations, are often revealed with time. Times, Sunday Times
One example, noted by spy novelist Jeremy Duns, is this passage from "Assassin of Secrets": "Then he saw her, behind the fountain, a small light, dim but growing to illuminate her as she stood naked but for a thin, translucent nightdress; her hair undone and falling to her waist—hair and the thin material moving and blowing as though caught in a silent zephyr. Spy Thriller: 'An Instant Classic' Vanishes Amid Plagiarism Charges
Silvery fish with scales like pearls and translucent blue fins like moonlight swam through the clear, cold water, hiding underneath duckweed and water-flowers floating above the pond's surface.
Were we, class?) So when Tyler finally handed over the weird, translucent, egg-shaped moonstone and Mason immediately brought it to Katherine, I didn't let out a full-on gasp.
The pages in Skuodas's books resemble broadsheets, and are rich in textural effects that include handwoven strips of painted or translucent paper.
Other features include a large louvered power sunroof and detachable, translucent door pockets.
The Code wasn't simply about getting rid of naughty words or translucent costumes.
Gently fry the onions and garlic in butter and chilli oil till soft and translucent. Times, Sunday Times
For a matte effect with any lippy, lightly dust with translucent powder. The Sun
The bed was surrounded by semitranslucent plastic curtains that made it impossible to identify the figure lying on it. The Overload Protocol
Both the blue and the yellow have the classic, satiny translucent petals of the poppy tribe, both, characteristically, are held on wiry stems above the parent plant.
Her palette grew more complex and sophisticated - replete with lavenders, juicy oranges, translucent celadons, glowing viridians, wine reds and a range of blues from deep ultramarine to pale sky.
To cover spots, match concealer to skin tone, dot on a small amount at a time and set with translucent powder to even out pores and minimise shine on the T-zone.
Moist and translucent, it tastes like a mellow orange with a hint of lemon.
The unusually fine clay yielded a porcelain china that was translucent with a glass-like finish.
It's blackish and translucent, but it doesn't have a shadowlike solid outline. Mistborn
The small mine dumps have produced the locality's most colorful datolites, which are translucent to almost transparent and occur in flesh tones with red speckling and veining.
John: is changing his idea of making fenestration translucent on the ground level and transparent on the top. Alla Kazovsky: Organizing Circulation
Between these, a hundred jellyfish as delicate and as translucent as rose petals pulsate like butterflies.
Then, the snacks will start appearing, in groups of two or three, each one on its own specially designed plate: pristine disks that look like elaborately decorated candies from a Parisian confiserie but taste of salty sesame; crisp, translucent rectangles of raspberry punched up with wasabi’s heat; a thin cracker that tastes purely and intensely of the juiciest tomato you’ve ever eaten. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
His cod is must be among the best in Scotland, large translucent flakes, topped perhaps with a herb crust, a dollop of aioli and black olive tapenade.
In the 19th century, all known translucent coloured enamels have a high lead content.
Like the two bathrooms directly above it on the first floor, it, too, is daylit through a wall of translucent glass blocks.
Last week, I slurped down filmy, translucent rice noodles and sang a song of fish sauce, but today I'm trading Southeast Asia for China.
That side of the head had crystallized irregularly, revealing the cranial cavity, from which the semitranslucent light seemed to pour. Crossed
The company makes optical drives with translucent bezels and trays, complete with blue LED activity lights.
On December 24, the parade known as Las Calendas fills the streets with floats from the different neighborhoods of the city, along with giant papier maché figures with people dancing inside them, and other marchers holding marmotas, translucent paper spheres lit from within and carried on poles. Mexican holiday sweets: cookies, candy and more
His skin was translucent with age.
Most shelled opisthobranchs I know of are a translucent white in colour.
Amber is a translucent, yellowish mineral made of fossilized resin.
It's skin - he saw - was covered in a thin sheen of some translucent substance that glimmered tiny fish scales or mildew when it moved.
‘That's chalcedony,’ Corissa remarked, her eyes focusing on the translucent gray capstones of the wall.
The rocks began to assume a mantle of translucent ice that dripped in grey icicles from overhangs.
An entire show had been cancelled and the theatre hall spruced up with translucent blue illumination and coloured-halogen lights that danced to the music on smoke screens.
It's a really nice electro-acoustic guitar, with a cut-away body style and a beautiful flamed top finished in a translucent red.
This translucent cover transmitted the light and sunshine necessary for the floricultural display beneath. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
A small difference between them will render the composite translucent.
Skin texture is smoothed and refined, and the complexion becomes more even, translucent and bright.? Vichy Laboratories, the #1 Skincare Brand in European Pharmacies, Expands to Southern California
This sheer balm has a translucent pearl finish that highlights without glitter or sparkle. Times, Sunday Times
Pale pink toenails were visible through translucent hose.
Scolecite is typically seen as a colorless to white, transparent to translucent mineral with a vitreous to silky luster.
Fry until very soft and translucent. Times, Sunday Times
Layered battens, vines and translucent corrugated acrylic sheets on the west make a wall animated by shadow play on the inside, and a vertical garden outside.
The sleeves were made of a filmy, translucent red material, so insubstantial that it was almost not there.
Each cluster is made up of circular grapes of fiery black opals and delicately tooled gold leaves covered in translucent green enamel, spaced equally along the chain.
Plutonites, also magmatic, form in conditions of extreme heat and pressure far deeper within the Earth; colourful translucent crystals such as aventurine, peridot and rose quartz are the result.
Outside, snow fell: fat flakes adhering to the windows and frosting the glass in translucent white.
When the rice turns translucent, pull the meat off the rabbit and add to the risotto. Times, Sunday Times
The business end is translucent and has some light emitting diodes inside.
Karin Almonte , a 31-year-old messenger from Washington Heights, bemoaned the ban as he watched a man wave a wand that spawned giant, translucent bubbles near the bandshell just south of Central Park's Bethesda Terrace. Hot Air Over City's New Smoking Ban
Perhaps the best rhodochrosite specimen from this mining period, a lustrous, translucent red rhombohedron about 4 inches on edge, is now on exhibit in the Coors Mineral Hall of the Denver Museum of Natural History.
Moore collected baseball-size gelatinous animals called salps and found their translucent tissues clogged with bits of monofilament fishing line and nurdles.
His skin was almost translucent, and for a moment I longed to reach up and touch it, but I quickly pushed the impulse aside.
Steel pole, fibreglass ribs, colorful crystal handle, colorful nylon cloth cover, translucent plastic film packing, both for rainy and sunny use.
And some pale skin is translucent; you can almost see through it - you can see little veins. Times, Sunday Times
Black party hats with veils made of black pantyhose or some other translucent material can also be made.
Choose a translucent powder to blend with your skin tone and apply with a puff or brush.
The wrapper in this case is made primarily from tapioca starch, which imparts a translucent sheen to the roll.
For the annatto oil, in a medium saucepan, heat the olive oil over medium heat, add the shallots, garlic, and annatto paste and saute until translucent.
Blue veins showed through her translucent skin.
This translucent ceramic can be advantageously used as, for example, a material for object lens (2) fitted to light pickup (9).
Guelder rose has dramatic clusters of brilliant, translucent scarlet berries. Times, Sunday Times
If you hold its leaves up to the light you will see translucent dots on them. Times, Sunday Times
Add the onion, garlic, and peppers and cook until the onion turns translucent.
They were really, really light -- the paper was translucent and kind of crinkled -- so you could fill up to two or three pages and not rack up a fortune in stamps when you went to mail your letter. Undefined
She was thin, so nearly every bone protruded beneath translucent white skin and emaciated muscles.
This china is so fine and delicate that it's translucent.
The unusually fine clay yielded a porcelain china that was translucent with a glass-like finish.
There are a variety of products you can use to coat your deck, from clear wood finishes to translucent to semi-transparent to solid-color stains.
Finely chop shallots or onion and soften till translucent in a mixture of butter and olive oil. Times, Sunday Times
Outside, snow fell: fat flakes adhering to the windows and frosting the glass in translucent white.
On the night stand was a translucent orb atop a triangular clock.
They have very thin bodies and translucent wings, and look like little sparkles of light as they dart about. Times, Sunday Times
Translucent lips pulled back from pearly teeth in a wicked grin.
Stir the onion until translucent, then add chopped celery and carrot. Times, Sunday Times
Add the onion, celery and carrot and stir until the onion is translucent. Times, Sunday Times
Zircons extracted from this sample were typically prismatic, red to yellow-whitish in colour and translucent to opaque.
Lightsome show film of translucent lacteal eye, need not be cleaned or rip off, can sleep after direct daub.
The translucent subacid white pulp has an excellent flavor; one of the best fruits of its genus.
Inserted into the void was a smaller white canvas, on which Grosse used a thick brush to paint kinetic pinwheels of translucent color.
If you hold its leaves up to the light you will see translucent dots on them. Times, Sunday Times
The mineral separates provided a population of euhedral, prismatic crystals, which are either transparent and colourless or chocolate brown and translucent to opaque.
It was remarkably unprepossessing - a translucent box-shaped blob, six or eight inches high, with threadlike tentacles trailing off beneath it.
We were there too the following dawn when it was so still that the Gorge seemed like a translucent painting, disturbed only by the flurry of noisy corellas fleeing from tree to tree.
The harlequin threw the baton over the translucent material, diving underneath and emerging on the other side to catch the silver rod, to gasps of awe from the spectators.
The Ghost crabs are named for their translucent bodies, and they are well camouflaged against the sand.
In the front, translucent fabric is backed with a solid to create a precise tone.
Pears … pallid corpselike mounds with no flavor. (shudder) And then in some ponderously jiggling, translucent green or orange blob reminiscent of a bad scifi B movie. Weird Foods « Colleen Anderson
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.
It is transparent to translucent and displays a luster that varies from vitreous to somewhat pearly.
The stuff I use to make my legs look a little less translucent does wonders for my snow-white legs, but makes my cousin look like she ate a few too many carrots.
It was more soupy than thick and meaty, the nicely spiced broth containing translucent noodles, thin strips of beef, bean sprouts and whole green onions that were almost sweet.
Some of the semitranslucent fabric panel sections will be up to 120 feet wide and run over two miles long. Christo vs. Colorado
His cod is must be among the best in Scotland, large translucent flakes, topped perhaps with a herb crust, a dollop of aioli and black olive tapenade.
The plates swam with a translucent gloop reminiscent of school dinners. Times, Sunday Times
In the first place, it should be understood that both conchiolin and aragonite are translucent, that is, they pass light to a certain extent. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
The dark metal is just visible through a translucent external wall made of gauzy stretched fabric.
On sunny days work early and late, when the sun, backlighting the leaves, creates a translucent glow.
Stir in unrinsed rice, stirfrying until semitranslucent. Times, Sunday Times
Saute until translucent and deglaze with lime juice.
While I had been sleeping the light outside became translucent. Times, Sunday Times
Scolecite is typically seen as a colorless to white, transparent to translucent mineral with a vitreous to silky luster.
This china is so fine and delicate that it's translucent.
Her pyjamas are made of thin translucent cotton.
A large, single crystal of translucent, rich purple, measuring 4.5 cm across sits on a matrix of splendent sphalerite with orange highlights.
One of them trailed a multitude of what Eppstadt took to be eggs, suspended in a jellied mass of semi-translucent phlegm. COLDHEART CANYON
Thin, translucent, and lacking enamel as well as dentine, these modern structures are known as cycloid and ctenoid scales. Undefined
After about a mile I kinked down to cross the Seven where there's a good, arched bridge and where the river, flowing through fields of virgin snow, was trimmed with a glaze of grey translucent ice.
The offices are screened off with translucent striated plastic partitioning, so the activities of staff become like shadow-plays under the fluorescent strip-lighting.
I love the way silk catches the light and becomes translucent. Times, Sunday Times
I deviated from my usual brand of wax last night, noting with interest the translucent turquoise colour rather than the usual caramel.
The fabric used to make the cloudscape would be translucent recycled PVC, recovered from recycled truck bed covers and bags. BIG's Bubbly Cloudscape for PS1 Can Be Recycled as Messenger Bags | Inhabitat
Like the majority of 16 th-century translucent coloured enamels, those in the portrait of Marguerite de France as Minerva have a low lead content.
The folds have worn translucent lines into the rough drawing paper.
Fry until very soft and translucent. Times, Sunday Times
Translucent yellow globes dangle from long chains over a rectangle of couches and uncomfortable bamboo chairs.
The mineral is transparent to translucent and has a vitreous to pearly luster and white streak.
This ‘eyeshine’ is not the iris color but that of the vascular membrane - the tapetum - showing through the translucent pigment layer on the surface of the retina.
Melissa Hamilton and Eric Underwood make their debuts this season, and physically they are ideal: the visual contrast of Hamilton's translucent fairness against Underwood's dark skin, the bendiness of both their bodies bring a rarefied strangeness to Wheeldon's choreography. Royal Ballet triple bill
Translucent white to gray, tabular rhombohedral crystals with knifelike edges are common.
Other times, the professional eavesdropper subconsciously shields himself with wire fences, translucent plastic sheeting, and window drapery to deflect prying questions.
The translucent polycarbonate ceiling gives the corridor a lightness it would not otherwise have.
The tip of the triangle marked the center of a circular sunburst drawn on both sides of the translucent paper with colored pencil in yellow, orange, red and pink that barely tinted the little cavelike corner space behind.
Those spots became semitranslucent, as if clogged with thick jelly of some kind, no longer as solid looking as they had been. Love and Death
Flat, thin leaves of horn were translucent and used for windowpanes in place of glass.
Add the onions, celery, leeks, and garlic and cook until the onions are translucent.
After our eyes adjust, we find the walls to be a gorgeous translucent blue, the surface scalloped into smooth, symmetrical wavelets.
What follows is a wealth of research about the Indian Ocean, where the deep seabed is covered by a translucent slime called globigerina ooze, which can be as much as one thousand feet thick.
The alien word glowed like a spangle of light in the darkness, warmed Dax like a shivering flush of color melting its way through coils of translucent gel. Time's Enemy
A dusty orange color, spotted with crunchy hazelnuts and translucent golden raisins, the bread was tender and moist with a very delicate crumb.
Now that I think about it, Corona does somewhat look like Madonna, despite her "refulgent peach-pink skin gleaming like translucent glass, almost porcelain to the eye, and her golden hair resembling fiber optic cables of fey brilliance. Writing update
A garden is a gladsome thing, he said to himself, surveying the new translucent lime-green growth on the beech hedge. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
Add the onions and parsley root and sauté until translucent.
For example, if you want a romantic starlit night sky to be part of your wedding, rent a tent with a translucent ceiling.
Translucent vase resting in a corner; soft, blazoning rose floating inside — thin blue light wavered everything in the living room — a grainy leaf turned in the murk, the rose rolled in its oval abyss. Carolina Grüber: I
He wrapped the rotunda in a translucent scrim, thus transforming the ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright's building into a tunnel, within which the individual garments were dramatically spotlit.
In a heavy stockpot, heat olive oil and sauté onion and garlic until onion is translucent.
Once nice and brown, remove the chicken pieces from the pan and sauté one chopped onion in the casserole and cook until translucent.
The building is roofed entirely with translucent corrugated plastic.
Different terms applied to opaque and translucent red, and special terms described translucence itself.

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