TRANSLUCENT in a Sentence
Learn TRANSLUCENT 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.
Example sentences for TRANSLUCENT, such as:
1. This china is so fine and delicate that it's translucent.
2. We could not recognize the people in the next room because of the translucent curtains that separated us.
2. We could not recognize the people in the next room because of the translucent curtains that separated us.
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Meanings and Examples of TRANSLUCENT
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translucent
a. partly transparent; transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen
Classic Sentence:
1 There in the flickering light of the lamp was the machine sure enough, squat, ugly, and askew; a thing of brass, ebony, ivory, and translucent glimmering quartz.
2 In one thin, translucently white hand he held a handkerchief, while with the other he stroked the delicate mustache he had grown, moving his fingers slowly.
Example Sentence:
1 We could not recognize the people in the next room because of the translucent curtains that separated us.
2 This china is so fine and delicate that it's translucent.
3 The toughness, strength, and translucence of porcelain arise mainly from the formation at these high temperatures of glass and the mineral mullite within the fired body.