Sample Sentences fordiaphanous (auto-selected)
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I see the world through a diaphanous curtain of blood.† (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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Layers of pale floral ruffling have sprouted all over her, and wave from her shoulders like diaphanous wings.† (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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It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and a flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture.† (source)
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The breeze rustled leaves in a dry and diaphanous distance.† (source)
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The desire I had for her when we married had not diminished; I wanted to possess her absolutely, down to her last thought, but that diaphanous woman would float by me like a breath of air, and even if I held her down with my hands and embraced her with all my strength, I could never make her mine.† (source)
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