How to Use limpid in a Sentence

limpid

adjective

• As a pianist, Ms. Rosnes is known for her breezy swing and limpid touch.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
• Soup is delivered to the table as a side, a limpid broth of pork bones and ham with a warming lick of ginger.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• At the edges of the ice sheet, that translates to gushing rivers and limpid blue pools of meltwater dotting the ice’s surface.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2019
• Its color is a limpid, rosy magenta, which tells me that the wine is going to be lightweight.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 June 2021
• If water sports are your thing, head to the famously limpid waters between and around the islands.
  — Jennifer Ladonne, CNN, 24 May 2017
• The Rockets have taken the Warriors-style three-point attack to a higher level, and have stiffened their once-limpid defense.
  — Scott Ostler, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Apr. 2018
• Frankenthaler’s soak-and-stain painting technique achieved dreamy, limpid colors.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Feb. 2022
• Several of the sequences set in the military hospital offer camera moves that are as limpid and thrilling as a dance.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 May 2022
• But the limpid sophistication of the San Francisco style is apart from either.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
• Floors of white terrazzo and ceilings of blonde pine create warm, limpid spaces within.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
• Bastad, a resort on Sweden’s southwest coast, sits on a peninsula known for its sandy soil, limpid light and prized potato crop.
  — Wsj Real Estate, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2017
• In places, workers dug beneath the water table, and some chambers now contain limpid pools of pure, crystalline water.
  — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2022
• Enchanted Lagoon, a limpid pool in an ancient volcanic crater.
  — Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2021
• The cuttlefish hovers in the aquarium, its fins rippling and large, limpid eyes glistening.
  — New York Times, 8 Jan. 2020
• For sheer rhythmic movement, delicacy of contour line and limpid grace in form and texture, there is nothing to approach this piece.
  — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 18 Dec. 2019
• In such contexts, Rousseau’s limpid, richly colored pictures of innocent subjects — jungles, big cats, the moon — can come as a relief.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022
• But the limpid-toned soprano went solo at 19, pursuing her own version of Western pop-soul, often with English lyrics.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
• The singer’s easy, limpid phrasing, bright sound and expressive use of ornamentation made Elvira’s plight very touching.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Today the lake’s limpid waters look inviting, but the clarity is a symptom of lifelessness—the plankton population crash has rippled across the food web.
  — Tim Folger, Environment, 2 Dec. 2020
• Karl had a beard and a monocle, double-breasted suits, and then in his close friend the limpid-eyed, elegant, and aristocratic Jacques de Bascher a man whom Proust himself could have fallen for.
  — Kennedy Fraser, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019
• Ditto eyes: Smith spills plenty of ink on her characters’ limpid, luminous irises.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 19 June 2017
• These brief, limpid essays and stories range widely in approach and subject, but cohere through avid curiosity and delight.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
• Rivera depicts Natasha as a limpid flower, surrounded with armfuls of gargantuan calla lilies.
  — oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2022
• There’s not much else to do on Salina except swimming in limpid waters off pebbly beaches, feasting on marvelously fresh fish and seafood, and drinking in the magnificent views.
  — Nicky Swallow, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2020
• One of the broad-minded music club’s classical highlights this week is a tribute to the distinctive American composer, known for the limpid delicacy of his style.
  — The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2017
• Still, Hough, whose reading is nearly two minutes shorter, wins me over with his liquid, limpid articulation.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• This is a novel that works not through dazzling images or narrative pyrotechnics but through the steady accretion of clear-eyed observations relayed in limpid prose.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2020
• Renzo Piano’s building, with its open, limpid spaces, is an ideal complement to Bertoia’s work, and the curators have done well in presenting the work in a straightforward, unfussy manner, on white plinths and pedestals.
  — Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2022
• Algorithms can unspool eerily limpid text. Election Sale.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 24 Sep. 2020
• Her prose is limpid, her descriptions of nature knowledgeable and often exquisite.
  — Akash Kapur, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021

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