opal-like
- a word derived from opal.
Example Sentences
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The team will keep an eye out for exposures of opal-like rocks that have recently been spotted from space.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 25, 2020
This is Peter Hall's fourth production of Shakespeare's most beautiful, opal-like comedy.
From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2011
Blue shadows stretched eastward across the wide zacatan meadows, and the hacienda on the far mesa, with its white and cream adobe walls, shone opal-like in the lavender haze of the setting sun.
From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Amick, Robert Wesley
The landscape effect is the opal-like sky and bright light full of moisture after rain—heavy clouds hang above—the mountains are a leaden blue—and the sky of all exquisite pale shades of bright colour.
From Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books by Eden, Horatia K. F.
It displays an upper edging of radiant blue, a broad band of iridescent pink with greenish opal-like lights, and a narrow streak of the richest emerald green, close along the back.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
