nacreous

Example Sentences

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The urge to reach, irritably, for the device during meals, conversations, parties and upon awakening, can partly be attributed to lust for the object and the soft, nacreous glow of the screen.

From The Guardian

Where the previous photo paintings relied mostly on a gray-scale palette, Ema glows with nacreous pink skin and golden hair—her body “seems to shine from within,” as one critic put it.

From The New Yorker

A giant pearl appears between floating lips, and more nacreous orbs separate the fingers of two hands that emerge from the darkness.

From Los Angeles Times

Among them are nacreous clouds hanging in the stratosphere, mixtures of supercooled water, ice crystals and nitric acid.

From Scientific American

The cold air the storm blew in also led to the formation of beautiful nacreous clouds.

From National Geographic