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Example sentences for "translucence"

Lexicographically close words:
translatory; transliterated; transliteration; transliterations; translocation; translucency; translucent; translucid; transmarine; transmigrate
  1. The dark was mysteriously lifting, the air filling with a soft silver-gray translucence that touched the wild growth as with a fairy gossamer.

  2. During the 15th and 16th centuries Chinese porcelain also began to find its way into Europe, and by the whiteness of its substance and its marvellous translucence excited the attention of the Italian majolists and alchemists.

  3. The earliest English porcelains were derived from the French, and, like them, owed their translucence to the use of glass.

  4. Is it in the translucence of the atmosphere?

  5. First of all, the whole garden, woodland and heather hills were steeped in a translucence for which there is no name.

  6. These localities all consist of the opaque varieties, with a slight degree of translucence in some places.

  7. It differs chiefly from the dotted jaspers of Lake Michigan, in its translucence and green color.

  8. Now there had emerged a white world, a silver mystery, a pale dream; and for Rodney the reality that shone always behind the shadow-foreground dropped the shadows like a veil and emerged in clean and bare translucence of truth.

  9. The quiet road bore them through the hushed translucence of the dawn-clear land.

  10. Another cause for its brilliancy was that its translucence was not obscured by paint.

  11. No flat tints can ever produce the effect of warmth and translucence that is yielded by colour illuminated through and through by the rays of the sun.

  12. But what it loses in delicacy and translucence it makes up in strength, and perhaps after all strength is as desirable as any other quality.

  13. These two qualities of hardness and translucence help us to distinguish porcelain from pottery.

  14. The translucence had a pathos for his intelligence which the pensive tilt of her head enhanced.

  15. The translucence of this sea in which the boys plash and plunge is another witness to the verisimilitude of Sorolla's vision.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "translucence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.