Example Sentences

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Skirts and dresses, asymmetrical in their design, fluttered diaphanously, balancing between revelation and concealment.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 28, 2023

The froth, you know, looks diaphanously solid, but is as solid as sweetened water.

From Slate • Dec. 31, 2019

The tracks undulate slowly and diaphanously, while instruments and ensembles materialize out of nowhere and vanish just as mysteriously.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2017

He concedes that his paintings of diabolic winged creatures, furiously driven chariots and diaphanously clad maidens are basically "decor," adding: "You are not supposed to look at the paintings, they look "at you.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her hair hung down her back like a girl's, and the white dressing-gown which floated diaphanously about her was unexpectedly reminiscent of Bond Street.

From The Great Impersonation by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)