How to Use opacity in a Sentence

opacity

noun

• Critics have noted the opacity of her writing style.
• For the rest of the trip the river had the color and opacity of pea soup.
  — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
• What is a timeless trend? Lipstick: the shades, the texture and the opacity will change.
  — Monica Corcoran Harel, Variety, 6 Mar. 2023
• The red flags, the opacity of it all, should shine a light on the dangerous swamp that is US election funding.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
• Further: some linen clothing can be far too see-through—but the Eileen is just the right level of opacity.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 19 June 2021
• Denier, which measures fabric weight, gauges the opacity of a pair of tights.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Nov. 2022
• The problem is China’s extreme opacity, which in many ways grew worse in Xi’s watch.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• So far, there haven’t been any protests, not even from the economic old guard who most profit from opacity.
  — WIRED, 10 July 2023
• For all their opacity, Whistler’s street scenes are alive, peopled with crowds at a bazaar or peering in windows.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
• The level of opacity will affect how much sunlight will be blocked.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2023
• In the time since, however, YouTube has stood out for the opacity of its process for reinstating Trump.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
• There is just an opacity to the number 6 million people.
  — Time, 16 Sep. 2022
• These tights offer the stretch of traditional tights but the opacity and comfort of a legging.
  — L.a. Hubilla, Peoplemag, 26 June 2023
• How it’s held up: Even as the months have passed, the canopy’s fabric remains waterproof and vibrant, not losing its hue or opacity in the sun.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
• Only the shadows cast by objects will appear, so opacity, size, and shape are key.
  — Kim Hutchison, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2022
• When testing for opacity, these received top marks with no light shining through when stretched out.
  — L.a. Hubilla, Peoplemag, 26 June 2023
• Scalia Law was walking a fine line: marketing its closeness to the justices amid the court’s demands for opacity.
  — Jo Becker, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• Overall, these leggings were deserving of the highest praise from our tester and earned perfect scores for opacity, fit, and hold.
  — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2022
• The opacity of the process can sometimes make Zeidman’s role seem like divination.
  — Teresa Mathew, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
• What those two kinds of trouble are, nobody will ever know since Dulli mutters the words and buries them in the mix, giving them a twilight-like opacity.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
• Burrough asked if that same opacity would apply to the marketing of the Majestic.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2022
• The opacity of our information systems comes with a cost.
  — An Xiao Mina, The Atlantic, 8 June 2021
• In practice, though, Staunton’s Elizabeth is impassive to the point of opacity.
  — Time, 5 Nov. 2022
• How much or little coverage the stain provides is referred to as its opacity.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
• Bell started folks with the 801 — the lighter flavor profile — asking everyone to hold up their sample to the light to really look at the color and opacity.
  — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 May 2022
• Contrast this opacity with the chisanbop method from the 1940s or the Russian way to multiply, both well documented for decades.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2020
• But one area where Jenner opted to be a little more conservative was the dress’s opacity.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2024
• The opacity of the glass panels that flank the yacht and can be regulated to define the mood or increase privacy or transparency are very cool too.
  — Bill Springer, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• The opacity is partly due to the fact that deciding who to let go is a complicated calculus.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
• Apple is technically also within its rights to be opaque about the rules, but that opacity is not good for anyone.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 17 June 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024