Sample sentences for IRIDESCENT

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Definition

varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles

The iridescent bubbles were beautiful.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea

iridescent = varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles

But the bird was almost out of sight now and nothing showed on the surface of the water but some patches of yellow, sun-bleached Sargasso weed and the purple, formalized, iridescent gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating dose beside the boat.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea
Iridescent feathers grew from his head, spreading down across his shoulders and back.
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna
I could already see the sky, iridescent and just beyond the water above me.
Sarah Dessen -- Dreamland
The sea was an iridescent blue.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
Then came her cloglike shoes-"bakya"-then the iridescent seashells by her feet-"capiz"-then a woven bamboo mat-"banig"-that was laid out before her.
Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven
In the late-day light, its maroon shell shone iridescent as mother-of-pearl.
Gish Jen -- Typical American
Something like a bank of mist, but shot with quick iridescent flashes, hung over us.
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
I hold it out on my palm and examine its iridescent surface in the sunlight.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
He could see the iridescent speckled pattern on the back.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
It was still there, like an iridescent bubble that floats for a while unbroken.
Marcel Proust -- Swann's Way
The water they contained was covered with an iridescent film and it was full of dead flies, midges and spiders.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
Women with iridescent feathers on their heads and trailing down their spines.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
He felt the dozing cat's purr of his kidneys, he felt the iridescent brilliance of his vesicles, he felt the humming blood in his arteries.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
A magpie flew up as she walked in, a flash of black and white and iridescent green, and settled in the branches of a yew tree, watching her.
Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book
They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
The iridescent painted cat she insisted I buy her is between us on the seat, and I can't wait to get home because it's scaring the crap out of me.
Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility
I popped a beer and sat out on the patio, staring into the iridescent blue water of the lit swimming pool.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
It's a weird, jarring effect, as if their heads are engulfed in a spinning, iridescent green fire.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave

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