translucency

How To Use translucency In A Sentence

• Boucher's shepherdesses are not quite those manufactured in Nymphenburg and Meissen, although their complexions have something of the translucency of porcelain, whilst his herdsmen are streamlined terracotta.
• It acts as an intermediate space between the natural world and the artificial, and its effects of light and shadow, transparency, translucency and even opacity alter constantly with weather, time and season.
• The writer equated ‘its shell-like translucency [with] the finest old Chinese porcelain.’
• They were the first to use kaolin clay for porcelains, so that when thin enough, the walls revealed breathtaking translucency.
• Multiple layers of nets stretched over the structural frame create a dramatic and ever-changing play of opacity and translucency as the viewer moves in and around the installation.
• First-trimester trisomy screening: nuchal translucency measurement training and quality assurance to correct and unify technique. Prenatal Diagnosis
• Glass mosaic tiles add a translucency and complexity that ceramic cannot match.
• The sensuousness of this piece is heightened by the softness and translucency of the polished stone.
• The eggshell thinness of the excised porcelain and the transparency of the glaze impart a striking translucency when the vase is held up to the light.
• Perfectly cooked fish should flake easily and be opaque the faintest amount of translucency the middle.