Sample sentences for DIAPHANOUS

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so thin that light passes through it

Clary tugged a little self-consciously at the diaphanous material of the silver dress.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass

A meek shy light appeared in the East, where stretched a diaphanous fleece of white furrowed vapor.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
Some auras were just wisps of diaphanous tinted smoke, others were dark spots and sheets of solid muddy colors.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
The gold became a diaphanous, glittering globe.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
To me, a barbarous Englishman, has been entrusted the revelation of this diaphanous mystery.
Jorge Luis Borges -- The Garden of Forking Paths
Her dress was white and silver too, as diaphanous as a sheet of ice; one could glimpse her body through it, though not clearly.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
Layers of pale floral ruffling have sprouted all over her, and wave from her shoulders like diaphanous wings.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
But for d'Artagnan all aspects were clothed happily, all ideas wore a smile, all shades were diaphanous.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
He tugged on it, and a diaphanous membrane unspooled from within the wall.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
Langdon took a deep breath and turned to face the eerie collection of diaphanous vaults.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
The breeze rustled leaves in a dry and diaphanous distance.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
I see the world through a diaphanous curtain of blood.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
The mists rose like layers of diaphanous scarves above Victoria Harbour as the huge jet circled for the final approach into Kai Tak Airport.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
She leans down long enough to retrieve her diaphanous shawl and disappears, her arm raised so that the shawl trails behind her, a shimmering banner.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
It looked particularly bad, for example, on Frau Stohr, whose arms were too spongy—diaphanous clothes were simply not for her.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
I pulled back the thin diaphanous curtain that covered the windows and spotted my friend Ayana outside with her mother.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
What had been leanness in her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
She was as beautiful as ever, her dress a diaphanous mixture of silver and gold, her hair like rosy copper as she arranged it gently over one white shoulder.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
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.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
Then my gaze slid over the people to the blaze of green beyond the diaphanous curtains, and I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar

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