Sample sentences for TRANSLUCENT

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Definition

almost transparent; allowing light to pass through diffusely

I could see a vague form through the translucent glass.

translucent = almost transparent; allowing light to pass through diffusely

I missed my white friends and white teachers and my translucent semi-girlfriend.
Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

translucent = almost transparent

The boy's candlecolored skin was all but translucent.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road

translucent = almost transparent; allowing light to pass through diffusely

His skin really was translucent, even more so than I'd imagined.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember

translucent = almost transparent

he flat seed pods were still thick and green, but later, in the fall, the skin would dry thin, and cold winds would strip away the hull to the last translucent membrane, holding the dark eyes of the seed inside it.
Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony

translucent = almost transparent; allowing light to pass through diffusely

translucent amber
Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,
Woolf, Virginia -- The Voyage Out
I was too intent to keep track, but, at length, a sort of pinkness invaded the translucent blue skin of her cheek.
Katherine Paterson -- Jacob Have I Loved
He has brandished his torch in murky by-streets where girls suddenly seem to shine with a red and intoxicating translucency.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
Pale, almost translucent skin stretched over protruding ribs and knobby joints.
Pittacus Lore -- I Am Number Four
A smooth, pale, translucent white.
Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried
She looked up at a round lake of deep translucent sky.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
The skin on his hands and face was milky white, almost translucent, showing the branching veins.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
/ was standing on a translucent platform suspended high over the sewer system.
James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment
It was a massive chair carved from a single piece of Hagal quartz — blue-green translucency shot through with streaks of yellow fire.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
He looked exhausted, and his skin was so pale that it was almost translucent.
Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John
The clocks ticked on, the crackled, the translucent candles dripped.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
Her calves and ankles were thin, but her feet especially so, the tops of them shockingly bony, reedy and translucent.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
We couldn't count the money, but because Oz was translucent, we could see our cash accumulating inside when we held him up to the light.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
The skin becomes almost translucent, the eye sockets dark, so that the sufferer takes on the appearance of a martyr in medieval paintings.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor

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