Sample Sentences fordiaphanous (auto-selected)
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I see the world through a diaphanous curtain of blood.† (source)
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Her Majesty was three times the size of her largest soldiers—a towering mass of black chitin and barbed appendages, with diaphanous oval wings folded against her back.† (source)
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Werner's favorites are five faded frescoes on the ceilings of the grandest upper rooms, where bees as big as children float against blue backdrops, big lazy drones and workers with diaphanous wings—where, above a hexagonal bathtub, a single nine-foot-long queen, with multiple eyes and a golden-furred abdomen, curls across the ceiling.† (source)
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I pulled back the thin diaphanous curtain that covered the windows and spotted my friend Ayana outside with her mother.† (source)
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I feel at times like a stone hurtling through diaphanous mist, unable to grab hold, unable to slow myself, yet unwilling to abandon the ride I'm on.† (source)
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Among the strangers, he and Pippa were two of the only really unique or interesting-looking people there: she, like a fairy in her gauzy-sleeved, diaphanous green; he, elegant and endearing in his midnight blue double-breasted, his beautiful old shoes from Peal and Co. "I —" Hopelessly, I looked around.† (source)
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On Halloween the trick-or-treaters would have to bat their way through diaphanous veils, the older ones laughing but the younger ones on the edge of panic, particularly if the night was windy and the cheesecloth was lifting and writhing and wrapping itself around them.† (source)
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The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer.† (source)
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This phantom wore many faces, but it always had golden hair, was enveloped in a diaphanous cloud, and floated airily before his mind's eye in a pleasing chaos of roses, peacocks, white ponies, and blue ribbons.† (source)
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What had been leanness in her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen.† (source)
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The breeze rustled leaves in a dry and diaphanous distance.† (source)
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Comforted by yet another victory over old age, he surrendered to the diaphanous and fluid lyricism of the final piece on the program, which he could not identify.† (source)
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Layers of pale floral ruffling have sprouted all over her, and wave from her shoulders like diaphanous wings.† (source)
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Her dress was white and silver too, as diaphanous as a sheet of ice; one could glimpse her body through it, though not clearly.† (source)
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At the very top of the plume, in the greatest violence and turmoil, the water is beaten and pulverized into a fine mist, and the air that is pushed out of the way by the upward jet of water propels the mist in its own arc until it slowly begins to sink in diaphanous curtains that oscillate in the breeze.† (source)
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The mists rose like layers of diaphanous scarves above Victoria Harbour as the huge jet circled for the final approach into Kai Tak Airport.† (source)
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