Sample Sentences fortransparentgrouped by contextual meaning (editor-reviewed)
transparent as in: transparent shower door
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The transparent shower door shows water spots.
transparent = capable of being seen through with clarity
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As a safety measure, the school now insists that all backpacks and school bags be transparent.transparent = easily seen through
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It was a strange furnace, fueled by firewood, with a transparent flask heating on top. (source)transparent = capable of being seen through
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The wall flickered, quivered, grew transparent. (source)
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Unlike the ghosts around them, Peeves the Poltergeist was the very reverse of pale and transparent. (source)transparent = capable of being seen through
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Once, however, at our Paris flat we had a maid who appeared to be charming and transparently honest.† (source)
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Smoke lay upon the sea like a semitransparent fog, through which here and there shone cores of intense brilliance.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
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Exposure to the air had bleached the yellow and pink to near-white, and transparency. (source)transparency = able to be seen through lately
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Og flew back into the DJ booth, which closed up around him like a transparent cocoon. (source)transparent = capable of being seen through
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Jurgis was so transparently what he pretended to be that his cell mate was as open with him as a child; it was pleasant to tell him adventures, he was so full of wonder and admiration, he was so new to the ways of the country.† (source)
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Now I was standing on a semitransparent running track, a curved looping ribbon suspended in a starry nebula. (source)semitransparent = partially capable of being seen through
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The skin on his lower face had regrown, but it was thin and waxy, as if someone had taken sandpaper and rubbed it to the point of transparency. (source)transparency = being able to see through it
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So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. (source)transparent = capable of being seen through
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Even in my new, period-appropriate clothes, I felt transparently out of place.† (source)
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transparent as in: transparent lie
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She tried to hide her emotions, but her true feelings were transparent.
transparent = obvious (despite attempts to hide them)
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It was a transparent lie.transparent = obvious
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I feel transparent. Surely they will be able to see through me. (source)transparent = easily seen and understood (despite attempts to hide deceive)
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It was terrifying to think of myself so obvious, so transparent. (source)transparent = obvious (despite attempts not to be)
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Am I that transparent? (source)transparent = obvious
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"Then be reasonable and use your head," he said coldly, suddenly feeling so old, too old for such a transparently false lack of feeling. (source)transparently = obviously
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She felt soft at every level, and transparent. (source)transparent = obvious
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Philip knew very little about women, or he would have been aware that one should accept their most transparent lies. (source)
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I felt blasted with the desire, irradiated, rendered transparent. (source)
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Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars! (source)Transparent = obvious (despite attempts to hide it)
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I mean, my lies were always so fucking transparent. (source)transparent = obvious
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transparent as in: transparent decision making
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They promised a transparent budgetary process.
transparent = easily observable
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The best hope for limiting excessive political influence of special interest groups is to make the decision-making process more transparent.transparent = easily observable or understood
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If he seems to have depth to me, do I seem shallow and transparent to him? (source)transparent = easily observable
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Jem's head at times was transparent: he had thought that up to make me understand he wasn't afraid of Radleys in any shape or form, to contrast his own fearless heroism with my cowardice. (source)transparent = easily understood
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I think it's her transparency—everything she thinks or feels is written all over her face, and even if it wasn't, she'd say it anyway, because she says what she thinks, without thinking first. (source)transparency = easily observable or understood
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All my life, I have lived like an aquarium fish in the safety of a glass tank, behind a barrier as impenetrable as it has been transparent. (source)transparent = easily observable
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But when Old Father Sun departs, the chromoplastic reverts to transparency in the dark.† (source)
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She'd imagined he would stay transparent to her, more part of her, for so much longer. (source)transparent = easily understood
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But before that ....I promised you full transparency with these procedures.† (source)
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"The Asian system is transparent," says Karen Fuson, a Northwestern University psychologist who has closely studied Asian-Western differences. (source)transparent = easily observable or understood
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Ammu wondered at the transparency of that kiss.† (source)
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The normal process was the reverse, but he believed that in her case there were such transparent mental disturbances and such an unequivocal forensic psychiatric assessment that he was left with no alternative. (source)
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As we all know here at the Circle, transparency leads to peace of mind.† (source)
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All of these things are expressions of the peculiarities of the human mind and heart, a refutation of the notion that the way we function and communicate and process information is straightforward and transparent. (source)
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