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 powdered slurry becomes a strong, opalescent material called sintered glass.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2023
Crystal Holographic, this year’s iteration of Lancôme’s annual holiday highlighter, is quietly opalescent.
From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2020
Beside us, in the lamplight, is a seated figure, inflamed and opalescent, like a flaring ember.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2020
Moonlight floods the bedroom, shimmers the walls, opalescent.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
