How to Use translucence in a Sentence

translucence

noun

• The fibers and translucence of jellyfish and deep water life were a key theme in the 19 looks.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2019
• To follow is a plate of turbot usuzukuri, sliced to translucence.
  — The Economist, 4 Oct. 2019
• While some fish use bright lights, others have evolved into a state of translucence.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2019
• Solution 1 Add airy art to mimic the translucence of the acrylic table.
  — Eleanore Park, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2019
• For iridescence and translucence, the Judson windows are hard to match.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Nov. 2020
• Kites’ bold, playful riffs on the rapper’s chain trades silver and gold for translucence and a bit of childhood nostalgia.
  — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2019
• Because these noodles, which get their English name because of their translucence, are super-light and springy, and gluten-free.
  — Joe Yonan, The Denver Post, 13 Aug. 2019
• For even in a large auditorium, there was no mistaking the airy translucence of her sound, nor the cerebral quality of her phrase-making.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Jan. 2018
• The mirrors that Smith has built distill confusion into a wondrous translucence.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
• Light to the point of translucence, this wine smells like Juicyfruit gum, cranberry and pomegranate, with a textural grip that comes from its whole-cluster fermentation.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2018
• So though there's a great deal to admire in the translucence of her ensemble's sound and the arid nature of its textures on the recording, the Constellation show brought forth tones and overtones only a live performance can yield.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2017
• The work morphs with the day’s light, moving between opacity and translucence, at times monochromatic and other times featuring bleeding color blocks, like a Rothko painting.
  — Deborah Vankinstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2022
• Its propellors are noticeably lighter-weight than competitors, and their tear-dropped shape and translucence add an extra insectoid touch.
  — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 June 2018
• With its yellow-brown translucence, amber is beautiful on its own, but it is prized by scientists because of what is sometimes found within: flora and fauna.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2020
• Zenon's solos proved comparably adroit, and there was no mistaking his signature translucence of sound.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2017
• For all the intricacies of Tukes’ phrase-making here, however, the crispness of his instrumental attacks and translucence of his tone stood out, with guitarist Peter Lerner echoing this approach.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• There’s a startling translucence to her performance, a willingness to let emotions bleed through gently and unforcedly, that matches the unhurried grace and circumspection of the filmmaking.
  — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• His signature technique involved thinning the pigment to near-translucence, then applying it layer over layer to create a luminous, glaze-like finish.
  — Susan Delson, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2021
• Nevertheless, the drawings, which depict bony and fleshy forms that dance ecstatically across the picture plane, appear to be lighted from within in ways that hint at Hesse’s subsequent interest in the translucence of fiberglass and plastic.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 3 Apr. 2022
• For instance, the translucence of the spectral ghosts simply differentiates between enemies that can move through walls and enemies that are corporeal.
  — Giaco Furino, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2016
• The agate’s translucence bestows celestiality on both images.
  — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022
• Glass frogs, which exhibit varying degrees of skin translucence, are another example.
  — Luna Shyr, Wired, 4 Sep. 2021
• Capote picked a few charms from each woman and mixed, rendering the character in full with Carol’s whispery translucence, Gloria’s imaginative fancies, Marguerite’s bubbling bonhomie, and Doris looking spritely advantageous.
  — Callahan Tormey, Town & Country, 28 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024