translucent

Example Sentences

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This is not the moment to rush; most good soups start quietly, with onions turning translucent or spices warming until they smell like themselves.

From Salon

“This very rare geologic feature of translucent petroleum has been filtered by nature,” the sign read.

From Los Angeles Times

It was translucent and tasted like red grape, only sweeter and deeper.

From Literature

Maybe it’s her fine, wispy white-blond hair or her pale, almost translucent skin.

From Literature

Siphonophores -- largely translucent creatures in fanciful shapes resembling toddlers' drawings -- glowed as they drifted by, and silver, fingernail-sized fish skittered out of the sub's wake.

From Barron's