opalescent

Example Sentences

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The crab is small, being around 15 millimeters in length, and is opalescent white-yellow in color.

From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025

The doors would not open, and for a while it was just me, the opalescent fake hair, and the panicky sound of an “OPEN DOORS” button being pressed repeatedly to no avail.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024

I raised one foot and kicked the tippy-toe spike of a traction device attached to my boot into the opalescent surface.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2024

The powdered slurry becomes a strong, opalescent material called sintered glass.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2023

Werner thinks of Jutta with her opalescent hair and quick eyes and blunt manners: she would never be mistaken for the weakest.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr