How to Use translucency in a Sentence
translucency
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The meat should begin to flake and be opaque with a slight translucency in the middle.
—Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2021
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All the forms are blurred, there’s a certain amount of translucency and a lot of softness.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
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Baked salmon should be slightly flaky with a bit of translucency in the middle.
—Angela Watson, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2021
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From the translucency and the turquoise color, Colin’s best guess is Minton Bone China.
—Jane Alexiadis, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2017
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For the Nintendo Switch, the sort of translucency made popular by the Game Boy is only available as a mod.
—Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
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The hardest frogs for people to spot sported the pattern of translucency typically seen on the glass frog.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2020
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Now translucency is a design flourish, a way to direct or misdirect the eye.
—Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
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The milky translucency of drafting film layers with cyanotype photograms on cloth.
—Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 28 Aug. 2017
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One of the new CG ghosts, Muncher, took cues from a tardigrade (microscopic water bear) and glass frogs for translucency.
—Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2022
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They might be cut into pieces, polished to a high gloss or reduced to frosted translucency, stacked and rearranged.
—Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
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There is a translucency, if not a transparency, to Schulz’s drawing style that allows for such sympathy.
—Chris Ware, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019
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The hotel was Japanese-inspired, and its windows appeared to have a rice-paper-like translucency.
—Allison Stewart, Washington Post, 30 June 2022
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Blacker and older skin does not require as much translucency to appear lifelike.
—Theodore Kim, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
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Stirring constantly, cook until all the liquid is evaporated and the rice grains have a glassy translucency.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2018
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The Settings app has been updated to include the translucency and mouse hot-tracking effects that Fluent brings, for example.
—Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2018
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The addition of bone ash, The Spruce Craft reports, helps makes the resulting dishes lightweight, stronger, durable, and with a creamy whiteness, while also giving bone china that trademark translucency.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 30 June 2021
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The rear panels have a slightly rough texture, and there’s a degree of translucency and light scattering that makes them appear not altogether solid.
—Sam Byford, The Verge, 8 July 2019
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In a sport, though, where there are no teams and no league but the competitors are individual contractors, this kind of transparency (or translucency in the case of the Patriots) is hard to legislate.
—Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
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From this point, the developer can add menu-bar items, apply translucency to the primary view controller, display and populate a preferences menu, add hover events, and so on.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 1 July 2019
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In a recording studio, microphones can capture the fortepiano’s translucency, but concert promoters and their audiences may still expect the depth and sheer loudness of a grand piano.
—J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
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The resulting ice boulders are striking in their colorful translucency.
—Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2017
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Shots of rippling, folded plastic sheeting, tightly framed and stripped of context, double as meditations on light, shadow and translucency.
—Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
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Rather than undergoing active chameleonlike color changes, glass frogs’ translucency allows light to bounce from their background and go through them—making their apparent color close to their setting.
—Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2020
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The 12-14 week ultrasound includes a screening test for Down syndrome and other chromosome abnormalities called the nuchal translucency test.
—Anna Nowogrodzki, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
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However, translucency is only the dominating visual feature in young, white skin.
—Theodore Kim, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
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The endless possibilities of resin—translucency, malleability, color saturation—were on full display at Design Miami this year.
—Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 6 Dec. 2022
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Tech-minded, they were attuned to the plastic material’s abstract capacities for luminous translucency and perceptual insight.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
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