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
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
I have this dish — it might be an incense holder — that’s an abalone shell whose interior is this beautiful opalescent pink.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2020
I noticed she was very white, the skin of her shoulder almost blue, opalescent, unbelievably pale considering where she lived.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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