pellucid

Example Sentences

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Discerning, tender and pellucid in its beauty, this is the kind of small, perfect novel it is hard to imagine anybody not loving.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

A reviewer in The Guardian called it “an eloquent, pellucid, sometimes poignant study of five female intellectuals, each of whom disdained convention to fulfill their potential as thinkers and writers.”

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2021

If you are missing cocktail bars, New York City before the shutdown or simply pellucid and startlingly intelligent poetry, “Three Poems” is a book for you.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2020

But even on Capri I could not devote myself exclusively to the enjoyment of the pellucid blue waters, the fresh seafood and the icy limoncello.

From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2019

Her lashes, he recalled, were golden red, her eyes pellucid blue.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor