Example Sentences

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She spoke the last words looking up at Rodney's windows, which were a semilucent red color, in her honor, as she knew.

From Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia

The silver-misted air Shines with mild radiance, as when through a cloud Of semilucent vapor shines the moon.

From In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)

We cooked supper early and rowed on silently over the mirroring waters, between two vast sheets of stars, through a semilucent immensity.

From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.

The square of semilucent window faded into something indescribable, and that into something indescribable, and that into something else, still indescribable.

From The Claim Jumpers by White, Stewart Edward

His litter of smooth semilucent mist, Diversely ting'd with rose and amethyst, Puzzled those eyes that for the centre sought; And scarcely for one moment could be caught390 His sluggish form reposing motionless.

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John