OPAQUE in a Sentence
Learn OPAQUE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
17 example sentences for OPAQUE, such as:
1. Kennicott was as opaque as ever.
2. The water was opaque over the mud.
3. Things are black, creatures are opaque.
4. Add the rice to the pan and cook until it becomes opaque.
5. The opaque window shade kept the sunlight out of the room.
2. The water was opaque over the mud.
3. Things are black, creatures are opaque.
4. Add the rice to the pan and cook until it becomes opaque.
5. The opaque window shade kept the sunlight out of the room.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of OPAQUE
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opaque
a. not clearly understood or expressed
a. not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight
Classic Sentence:
1 She had pale opaque eyes which revealed nothing and reflected nothing, and her narrow lips were of the same sallow colour as her face.
2 Then, she knew that somewhere in the opaque gloom about her there was shelter, help, a haven of refuge and warmth.
3 His eye became a degree less opaque: it was as though an incipient film had been removed from it, and she felt the pride of a skilful operator.
4 A feed store, its windows opaque with the dust of bran, a patent medicine advertisement painted on its roof.
5 Outside the window, beyond the fly-screen that was opaque with dust and cottonwood lint, Main Street was hushed except for the impatient throb of a standing motor car.
6 Kennicott was as opaque as ever.
7 The water was opaque over the mud.
8 Disappointed of its real womanhood, it had not succeeded in becoming boyish, and unsubstantial, and transparent; instead it had gone opaque.
9 Her body was going meaningless, going dull and opaque, so much insignificant substance.
10 Her guimpe was never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high.
11 Things are black, creatures are opaque.
12 Before it stopped running with a muffled rattle, a cry, a very loud cry, as of infinite desolation, soared slowly in the opaque air.
13 Beyond, the opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an entrance into it appeared like an engulfment.
14 The intermittent gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness.
Example Sentence:
1 The opaque window shade kept the sunlight out of the room.
2 Glass is almost perfectly opaque to deep ultraviolet, which is why it's hard to get a tan through a window.
3 Add the rice to the pan and cook until it becomes opaque.