How to Use translucency in a Sentence

translucency

noun

• The meat should begin to flake and be opaque with a slight translucency in the middle.
  — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2021
• All the forms are blurred, there’s a certain amount of translucency and a lot of softness.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
• Baked salmon should be slightly flaky with a bit of translucency in the middle.
  — Angela Watson, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2021
• From the translucency and the turquoise color, Colin’s best guess is Minton Bone China.
  — Jane Alexiadis, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2017
• For the Nintendo Switch, the sort of translucency made popular by the Game Boy is only available as a mod.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
• The king of Portugal fell in love with this strange ceramic that had the strength of ordinary pottery but the luster and translucency of a seashell.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
• The hardest frogs for people to spot sported the pattern of translucency typically seen on the glass frog.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2020
• Now translucency is a design flourish, a way to direct or misdirect the eye.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
• The milky translucency of drafting film layers with cyanotype photograms on cloth.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 28 Aug. 2017
• One of the new CG ghosts, Muncher, took cues from a tardigrade (microscopic water bear) and glass frogs for translucency.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2022
• They might be cut into pieces, polished to a high gloss or reduced to frosted translucency, stacked and rearranged.
  — Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• There is a translucency, if not a transparency, to Schulz’s drawing style that allows for such sympathy.
  — Chris Ware, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019
• The hotel was Japanese-inspired, and its windows appeared to have a rice-paper-like translucency.
  — Allison Stewart, Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• Blacker and older skin does not require as much translucency to appear lifelike.
  — Theodore Kim, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• Her main ingredient is oil paint, never acrylic—building up through many layers to a lush translucency.
  — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2023
• Stirring constantly, cook until all the liquid is evaporated and the rice grains have a glassy translucency.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2018
• The Settings app has been updated to include the translucency and mouse hot-tracking effects that Fluent brings, for example.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2018
• The addition of bone ash, The Spruce Craft reports, helps makes the resulting dishes lightweight, stronger, durable, and with a creamy whiteness, while also giving bone china that trademark translucency.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 30 June 2021
• The rear panels have a slightly rough texture, and there’s a degree of translucency and light scattering that makes them appear not altogether solid.
  — Sam Byford, The Verge, 8 July 2019
• In a sport, though, where there are no teams and no league but the competitors are individual contractors, this kind of transparency (or translucency in the case of the Patriots) is hard to legislate.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• But for glass frogs and other invertebrates, the greatest challenge to translucency is their red blood cells, which naturally absorb light.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• From this point, the developer can add menu-bar items, apply translucency to the primary view controller, display and populate a preferences menu, add hover events, and so on.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 1 July 2019
• In a recording studio, microphones can capture the fortepiano’s translucency, but concert promoters and their audiences may still expect the depth and sheer loudness of a grand piano.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• The resulting ice boulders are striking in their colorful translucency.
  — Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2017
• Shots of rippling, folded plastic sheeting, tightly framed and stripped of context, double as meditations on light, shadow and translucency.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Rather than undergoing active chameleonlike color changes, glass frogs’ translucency allows light to bounce from their background and go through them—making their apparent color close to their setting.
  — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2020
• The 12-14 week ultrasound includes a screening test for Down syndrome and other chromosome abnormalities called the nuchal translucency test.
  — Anna Nowogrodzki, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• However, translucency is only the dominating visual feature in young, white skin.
  — Theodore Kim, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• The endless possibilities of resin—translucency, malleability, color saturation—were on full display at Design Miami this year.
  — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 6 Dec. 2022
• Tech-minded, they were attuned to the plastic material’s abstract capacities for luminous translucency and perceptual insight.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024