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• Sue Anne considered several approaches for translating the damselfly's vivid colors and translucent wings into handwoven cloth.2026, “Damselfly Scarf”, in Lynn Rognsvoog, editor, Handwoven, volume XLVII, number 1, page 77. From the entry translate
• A translucent, gelatinous cake made from the starch of a yamlike tuber known as devil's tongue.2015, Ron Herbst, Sharon Tyler Herbst, The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion, 2nd edition. From the entry yamlike
• Along the sofa every three and a half feet, fluorescent tubes glow through translucent plastic diffusers.2008 January 24, “In a Town Known for Light, a House With Very Little”, in New York Times. From the entry diffuser
• An infant rhinoceros sits on the floor, its eyes half closed under their translucent lids.2005 September 6, Adrian Searle, “Fairground distraction”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN…. From the entry big toenail
• Around Jamaica, though, it’s more like a milky aquamarine, and translucent.1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition…. From the entry glaucous
• Men, bearded, hirsute, sat dolefully at the bar, eyes translucent from diurnal boozings.1989, Bill Kauffman, Every Man a King, page 220. From the entry boozing
• The less transparent consciousness is, the less translucent will the world itself be.1970, Robert S. Hartman, Robert. E. Carter, "Dialogue on Intrinsic Value" (1970), pages 122-23, quoted in 2014, Rem B. Edwards, John W.…. From the entry transluce
• He has translucent brown nerd glasses, and he wears a pair of furry bear ears on top of his head.2008, Benjamin Nugent, American Nerd: The Story of My People, Simon & Schuster, published 2009, →ISBN, part 2, 133. From the entry nerd glasses
• Sweat the carrots, onion, celery, leeks, and cabbage in the butter until translucent not allowing them to color in any way.2007, Patty Elsberry, Matt Bolus, Simply Vanilla: Recipes for Everyday Use, page 93. From the entry sweat
• A girl with pale blue hair and a translucent dress wears see-through underwear (she's not a natural bluenette).2000 November, B. Werde, “The Love”, in CMJ New Music Monthly. From the entry bluenette
• A fine earthenware differing from china in being harder, whiter, harder to fuse and more translucent than ordinary pottery.1921 May 11, “Edison Questions Stir Up a Storm”, in New York Times. From the entry china
• PCO translucent opacities apparently induce erratic light-scatter within the eye, which results in a combination of underilluminated retinal areas and in an increased PSD.2015 June 8, Jose Javier Garcia-Medina et al., “Does Posterior Capsule Opacification Affect the Results of Diagnostic Technologies to…. From the entry underilluminated
• The path lead through a translucent vertical wall, and there seemed to be no special challenge to passing through it, except for their fishly status.2000, Piers Anthony, Vale of the Vole. From the entry fishly
• The boat, a flat-bottomed river-runner with a forty-horse jet, slides off Mac's trailer, onto crumbling shelf ice and into the river, green, translucent.1999, Ken Marsh, Breakfast at Trout's Place: The Seasons of an Alaska Flyfisher, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry river runner
• But the fat man remains, as does the cashier, who is wispily blond, with a bony hillbilly nose and translucent white skin.1991, Douglas Coupland, Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 64. From the entry wispily
• Another cultivar, the elongate Catarina, is often called Cascabel because its dry seeds also make a noise within its translucent dry skin.1984, Jean Andrews, Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums, published 1995, page 100. From the entry cascabel
• Elevator, its signal lights, roof doors, electric light reflector, translucent plastic gas tank and pump with overhead lights, washpit with running stream.1950 November 27, “Set-up Service Station”, in LIFE, volume 29, number 22, page 77. From the entry washpit
• I thought of the tempting, beautiful bowls of mitsumame: a rainbow of fruit and sweet red beans and translucent cubes of jelly quavering in the sun.2016, Shawna Yang Ryan, Green Island, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry mitsumame
• The two slaves who dressed her hurried forward, one with the nearly translucent overshift, the other with the heavy collar of onyx and gold that held it in place.2011, Tanya Huff, Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy, →ISBN. From the entry overshift
• They are, at once, beautiful and curious, with their translucent white skin and strawberriest blond hair, looking like a group of Wagner’s Valkyrie lost in a Puccini opera.2006, Ida Liberkowski, Cynthia Malizia, Along the Amalfi Drive, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 282. From the entry strawberry
• Made of a glutinous secretion from the bird, these translucent nests would then be gathered and sold for shipment to Chinese markets, where they were considered a tasty delicacy.2004, Michael Walter Charney, “Esculent Bird’s Nest, Tin, and Fish: The Overseas Chinese and Their Trade in the Eastern Bay of Bengal…. From the entry esculent
• The virgin is released from the mucoid swamp by a water-nymph from under “the glassy cool, translucent wave,” an Apollonian realm of purity, clarity, and vision.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry mucoid
• Only a very ungypsylike responsibility for one's own work could produce a prose which, in spite of its ambiguities, was as unadorned and translucent as his.1966, Heinz Politzer, Franz Kafka; Parable and Paradox, page 26. From the entry ungypsylike
• Silica aerogels as translucent or transparent superinsulating fillers in window systems could help to considerably reduce thermal losses in windows and to improve the energy balance in passive solar systems.2012, Jochen Fricke, Aerogels, →ISBN, page v. From the entry superinsulating
• Perfect jelly is of appetizing flavor; beautifully colored and translucent; tender enough to cut easily with a spoon, yet firm enough to hold its shape when turned from the glass.1945, Fannie Merritt Farmer and Wilma Lord Perkins (revisor), The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Eighth edition. From the entry jelly

Meaning of translucent

1. adjective Allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it.
2. adjective Clear, lucid, or transparent.
3. noun Something that is translucent.

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How do you use translucent in a sentence?

Translucent is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The window-panes, encrusted with perennial deposits of Atmosphere, were less transparent than translucent.”

What is a short sentence with translucent?

“The man is a translucent liar and knave.”

What does translucent mean?

Translucent means allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it.