Example Sentences

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The light seemed to boil opalescently, like liquid soap shaken gently in a bottle.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

A fog had arisen, and the struggling rosy beams of the sun glimmered opalescently through the density.

From Other Things Being Equal by Wolf, Emma