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

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)

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.