semitransparent

Example Sentences

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The curtain of “Cloak” is semitransparent — it allows vision and blocks it at the same time, and, if people step behind it, functions as a sort of hiding place.

From New York Times

Then she began complicating the spatial play by extending hundreds of lengths of string diagonally out from the wall and attaching them to the floor, producing cascading forms that looked both densely streamlined and semitransparent.

From New York Times

Irene enters the tearoom with palpable wariness, her gait slowed, head down and face partly obscured by the semitransparent brim of her cloche hat.

From New York Times

In “The Shimmering Wall,” the narrator lives in a city contained by “semitransparent and flickering walls,” a “firm, jelly-like membrane” that acts as a permeable barrier between one world and another.

From New York Times

If the bottom cabinets have doors made of a semitransparent material like metal mesh or woven cane, you can hide components and still operate them with infrared remote controls.

From Seattle Times