translucent
Example Sentences
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"Glass eels are mesmerising, almost translucent - an adaptation to oceanic migration."
From BBC • May 7, 2026
Bathroom doors that aren’t translucent so the person in there doesn’t wake up the other person sleeping in the room.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Under strong light, however, they become translucent with a grayish green hue.
From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026
Let them soften slowly, blooming until fragrant and slightly sweet, their edges translucent and relaxed.
From Salon • Feb. 24, 2026
Down into pink-tiled bathrooms and among translucent, unformed babies with unseeing black spots for eyes, and dark braids that moved of their own accord, working their way along the sandy bottom of sleep like inchworms.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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