How to Use translucency in a Sentence

translucency

noun
  • Baked salmon should be slightly flaky with a bit of translucency in the middle.
    — Angela Watson, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The meat should begin to flake and be opaque with a slight translucency in the middle.
    — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2021
  • All the forms are blurred, there’s a certain amount of translucency and a lot of softness.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • There's more to Liquid Glass than translucency.
    — ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Apps still have a lot of white space and even some translucency, like in Safari and Messages.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 2 June 2023
  • The milky translucency of drafting film layers with cyanotype photograms on cloth.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Now translucency is a design flourish, a way to direct or misdirect the eye.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Blacker and older skin does not require as much translucency to appear lifelike.
    — Theodore Kim, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
  • They might be cut into pieces, polished to a high gloss or reduced to frosted translucency, stacked and rearranged.
    — Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Her main ingredient is oil paint, never acrylic—building up through many layers to a lush translucency.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The hardest frogs for people to spot sported the pattern of translucency typically seen on the glass frog.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2020
  • There is a translucency, if not a transparency, to Schulz’s drawing style that allows for such sympathy.
    — Chris Ware, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Stirring constantly, cook until all the liquid is evaporated and the rice grains have a glassy translucency.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2018
  • From the translucency and the turquoise color, Colin’s best guess is Minton Bone China.
    — Jane Alexiadis, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2017
  • From there, pigment gets added to the mixture, even though Vans often uses some natural gum color with a slight translucency. Once pigment gets applied, crews may reheat the mixture to apply more color, such as a white sidewall.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2016
  • For privacy, the windows switch to opaque at the push of a button, offering a sliding scale of translucency settings in between.
    — New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The hotel was Japanese-inspired, and its windows appeared to have a rice-paper-like translucency.
    — Allison Stewart, Washington Post, 30 June 2022
  • The resulting ice boulders are striking in their colorful translucency.
    — Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2017
  • The king of Portugal fell in love with this strange ceramic that had the strength of ordinary pottery but the luster and translucency of a seashell.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But for glass frogs and other invertebrates, the greatest challenge to translucency is their red blood cells, which naturally absorb light.
    — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Once researchers wash off the dye, the mice lost their translucency and the dye is excreted through urine, according to the university site's description of the study.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Scruton did camera tests with a number of different fabrics, but few had the proper amount of translucency that would keep the structure itself visible.
    — Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 13 Sep. 2024
  • However, translucency is only the dominating visual feature in young, white skin.
    — Theodore Kim, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The studio’s bio-plastics are built from biopolymers such as agar and gelatin, with varying components used to control flexibility and translucency.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 30 Jan. 2026
  • For the Nintendo Switch, the sort of translucency made popular by the Game Boy is only available as a mod.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
  • As Harry Caul’s surname suggests, there’s something newborn and blank about him, an idea that’s echoed in the strange, membrane-like translucency of his raincoat.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The Settings app has been updated to include the translucency and mouse hot-tracking effects that Fluent brings, for example.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2018
  • From this point, the developer can add menu-bar items, apply translucency to the primary view controller, display and populate a preferences menu, add hover events, and so on.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 1 July 2019
  • In designing the translucency of the ship, Cole tinkered in Photoshop, trying to balance the transparency.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Rather than undergoing active chameleonlike color changes, glass frogs’ translucency allows light to bounce from their background and go through them—making their apparent color close to their setting.
    — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2020

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