Sentence examples for translucent from inspiring English sources

Leonardo was obsessed with problems like how to create translucent effects in painting, how to capture the mysteries of light – the very problems posed by painting a glass sphere.

When the edges are translucent, pour over the wine and stir until it is absorbed.

They start their rolls with a pile of noodles, but visually it's nicer to see some pink prawn and green herbs through the translucent wrapper.

Add 3 sliced onions and cook over medium heat until translucent.

Cook over a medium heat until soft and translucent, then add the sliced garlic and season.

Her almost translucent features are photographed in close-up as she sweats and suffers.

It can stop fragments of glass and similar shrapnel, but is thin enough to be translucent and thus let a useful amount of daylight through a window.

Ballot boxes were translucent (in 2001, 111 polling stations recorded more votes than voters).

There will also be a "Transparency of Personnel Policy"; translucent personnel will presumably be offered generous severance terms.In this section The last divorce?

It is so deeply carved with classical gods and goddesses Apollo with his lyre, Diana with her alert dog that the piece has become translucent.

"Popeye" is a stainless-steel statue in an unusually large range of translucent colours.