Sentence examples for less translucent from inspiring English sources

English porcelain was cruder and less translucent.

The roof has two layers of Kalwall, the one on top less translucent than the one below.

As chilly and slow-moving as a glacier, but rather less translucent, Olivier Assayas's Demonlover is a business conspiracy thriller that also deals in pornography.

For that matter, the surface of this new film is particularly thin, less translucent than transparent, with very little of interest to the nearer vision, which may be why Allen took the unusual step of hiring a cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro, who could be counted on to lend the surfaces a distinctive and eye-catching finish.

The opacifier makes the glaze less translucent.

Finally, the portable CXR is subject to technical limitations: images are acquired using a voltage of 90 kVp instead of 120 kVp, resulting in a less translucent appearance of the ribs.

His reason was the delta smelt, a translucent fish less than eight centimetres (three inches) long that lives only in the delta and is considered endangered under federal law.

Compared to the relatively robust adjacent nerves of the brachial plexus, the long thoracic nerve is small in diameter, appears fragile, and has much less (and much more translucent) connective tissue.

They are made up of less than 5percentt anthraxylon (the translucent glossy jet-black material in bituminous coal) that alternates with thin bands of dull coal called attritus.

The artist's objective soon becomes self-evident, however: these are exercises in painting and looking in which the subject, represented with meticulously applied layers of translucent acrylic, is less important than the act of painting and its subsequent effects.

Although they lose some of their magical quality in bright sunlight, when the translucent glass has less depth and mystery and can seem like hard plastic, their effect in the light of an overcast day is ethereal.