Example Sentences

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The memories merged into a single image, hovering translucently overhead.

From Nature • Feb. 11, 2020

Swed also caught a performance of Esa-Pekka Salonen's new composition, "Pollux," at Disney Hall — "a translucently liquid 12-minute score" that Salonen wrote for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2018

There is also something intriguing about this translucently liquid 12-minute score that Salonen wrote for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2018

He leafed through the file with Frank’s name on the cover and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation stamped on it, turning the translucently thin pages covered with typeface.

From The Verge • Mar. 25, 2018

Then, as the wide sky became translucently pink and azure with the moon still shining brightly from the center of it, he drove down the hill to Bud Gleason’s house.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols