Adjective : Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent. ,a translucent explication. ,translucent seawater. From Dictionary.com.
The color was not blood; it was translucently thin, up close. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
Those that had been freed glistened translucently in the sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
And it all glowed translucently within its sharp Gothic mouldings. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
The Tameside Tory claim that everyone will pay is translucently fibulous. From Wordnik.com. [Whiney Rob Adlard: Still Fiddling the Stats in Tameside] Reference
The old woman's skin appeared translucently pale, blue veins throbbing at her temples. From Wordnik.com. [Body Wave]
For example, a scrolling chat window can be translucently superimposed on Britney Spears. From Wordnik.com. [Couch Potatoes: Let Your Fingers Do The Talking] Reference
As he trudged along, great muscles in his thighs slipped like anacondas beneath skin translucently pale. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
The animal life had sharper light, with electric eels flashing searchlight beams, and assorted fish shone translucently. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
He tried not to notice her pretty knees as they poked through the surface, or the rest of her translucently shrouded body. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
The stream was about twelve feet across, the eighteen inches from the surface to the bed translucently visible in a light copper gel. From Wordnik.com. [Country of the Blind]
It always took a question to evoke a response from the Guardian, and now the stone shape flickered, lighting translucently from within. From Wordnik.com. [YESTERDAY’S SON] Reference
His face was small and thin, the skin stretched across delicate bone structure, translucently pale in the artificial light of the module. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test] Reference
His face was small and thin, the 'skin stretched across delicate bone structure, translucently pale in the artificial light of the module. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
Her eyes glowed with fulfillment and the residue of passion, her body gleamed with a faint sheen of sweat, her complexion was translucently radiant. From Wordnik.com. [A Wicked Gentleman] Reference
"You noticed this scar," Zorar said, tracing an erratic line of pale silver that skipped from her breastbone to her navel, nearly invisible against her translucently delicate skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
But to the north-west an edge of it was translucently green. From Wordnik.com. [The Created Legend] Reference
The application launcher appears, translucently, over the current foreground app. From Wordnik.com. [John Tokash] Reference
I sliced the zucchini on a Japanese slicer so that it was almost translucently thin. From Wordnik.com. [Appetites] Reference
The beetroot was sliced translucently thin, served without all the faff of cooking it. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Aro: The mind-reading Volturi leader is described as having long, dark hair and translucently white skin. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
So translucently white was it, that when he dropped it into a glass of water he had difficulty in finding it. From Wordnik.com. [South Sea Tales] Reference
At this time, the originally invisible annotations with the visibility properties set to invisible are drawn translucently. From Wordnik.com. [FreshPatents.com: Notable Patent Applications - 06/03/2010] Reference
He wondered if, on a clear day, one could still see the schools of tiny fishes twelve feet below in water translucently blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny of Weakness] Reference
She had a brightness about her that seemed translucently fragile, but it kept her alive long after she should have been gone. From Wordnik.com. [Freep.com - RSS] Reference
The original scheme was uplifting: sculpturally appearing to rise through and above the ground, translucently illuminating an iridescent atrium. From Wordnik.com. [Archpaper.com - News Channel] Reference
The Volturi are supossed to be just as youthful as the rest of the cast, but and I quote, "His skin was translucently white, like onion skin, ...". From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
In one thin, translucently white hand he held a handkerchief, while with the other he stroked the delicate mustache he had grown, moving his fingers slowly. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
The edit overlay When you drag clips from the browser or viewer to the image area of the canvas, the edit overlay appears translucently over the current frame in the canvas BC 322. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Currently running apps appear in a carousel and can be discarded by swiping them up. jtokash: Palm Pre Nugget #2: The application launcher appears, translucently, over the current foreground app. From Wordnik.com. [John Tokash] Reference
You're racing to a sale at Crate & Barrel, and for those rare moments the kids are at their grandparents ', you'll be able to race home and make clumsy love to your translucently pale yuppie bride. From Wordnik.com. [Jalopnik] Reference
She was a miracle of greyness, her eyes translucently grey, a dark-haired queen of the twilights; and his heart sprang into his brain to picture the novel beauty; language became a flushed Bacchanal in. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
So translucently pure and soft was her complexion, that it might have seemed the token of delicate health, but for the dewy and exceeding redness of her lips, and the freshness of teeth whiter than pearls. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference
They are translucently inhuman. From Wordnik.com. [Heard by a Bird] Reference
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