Sentence examples for translucent from high-quality English sources.

• Cook gently until the onion is softened and translucent.

• In the West, it is a material that is translucent when held to the light.

• This requires more time, but we love the glossy, semi-translucent finish it gives.

• A translucent something shifting over another translucent something.

• Diamonds vary from colourless to black, and they may be transparent, translucent, or opaque.

• Also, the normally opaque material can be made translucent by adding small amounts of magnesia.

• Sweet corn has wrinkled translucent seeds; the plant sugar is not converted to starch as in other types.

• He started to wonder whether the actual concert hall could be built so that it resembled the translucent model.

Use translucent in a sentence.

• That operator misses the translucent Semtex sheet explosive on his screen, fails the test, and everyone panics.

• They do not need a substance to travel through, but they can travel through transparent and translucent substances.

• Tests of his initial samples suggest that, structurally, translucent concrete is just as good as the traditional kind.

• Their skin can be black (purple or ruby) or white (yellow or green), while their translucent flesh tends to be pale green.

• The fine-grained massive variety called alabaster is carved and polished for statuary and ornamental use when pure and translucent.

• Architectural practices have been requesting information, and asking when translucent or transparent concrete will be commercially available.

• This Lime colored Bento Box Set comes with a translucent lime bento box and five translucent inner lunch containers with turquoise lids.

• True to its name, it’s totally translucent and comes in two different shades — the traditional translucent and translucent medium deep.

translucent sentence examples

• Buford described the appearance of the bladder during cooking with a sense of wonder that stuck with me: “a beautifully golden, nearly translucent beach ball that some maniac is still insisting on pumping more air into.

• In the Western world, porcelain is usually defined as a translucent substance—when held to the light most porcelain does have this property—and stoneware is regarded as partially vitrified material that is not translucent.

• The Jing Fong Restaurant, on Elizabeth Street in Chinatown, has a sumptuous selection of the popular translucent shrimp bonnets, curry turnovers and pan-fried pork dumplings, as well as steamed varieties with scallop, shark's fin, or minced fish with spinach.

• —As ’twere, in the peerless panorama of Ireland’s portfolio, unmatched, despite their wellpraised prototypes in other vaunted prize regions, for very beauty, of bosky grove and undulating plain and luscious pastureland of vernal green, steeped in the transcendent translucent glow of our mild mysterious Irish twilight...