DIAPHANOUS in a Sentence
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Example sentences for DIAPHANOUS, such as:
1. The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer.
2. But for d'Artagnan all aspects were clothed happily, all ideas wore a smile, all shades were diaphanous.
2. But for d'Artagnan all aspects were clothed happily, all ideas wore a smile, all shades were diaphanous.
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Meanings and Examples of DIAPHANOUS
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diaphanous
a. so thin as to transmit light
Classic Sentence:
1 It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and a flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture.
2 It was a lovely May sunset, and the birch trees which grew on this margin of the vast Egdon wilderness had put on their new leaves, delicate as butterflies' wings, and diaphanous as amber.
3 But for d'Artagnan all aspects were clothed happily, all ideas wore a smile, all shades were diaphanous.
4 What had been leanness in her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen.
5 The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer.
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