Like some lampshades

Usage examples of opaque.

The unpredictability of process did not make it acausal, only opaque before the fact.

Although the shrine was dark and fading sunlight had climbed halfway up the walls, laying a bronze sheen on the cloudily opaque torsoes of the gigantic soldiers, everything in the square apse shone with an intense particularity.

Very admirable, that, but her coppery skin and her creamy, high-necked gownleaving nothing but her hands uncovered, yet clinging and only just barely opaque, so that it hinted at everything and revealed nothingmarked her just as clearly of the first blood of Arad Doman.

Reuben, of the eighty-third level, Atomist, knew there was something wrong when the binoculars flashed and then went opaque.

The expectorated matter is at first whitish, opaque, and tenacious, mixed sometimes with a frothy mucus, requiring considerable coughing to loosen it and throw it off.

Behind his bed were two opaque cubes -- the wardrobe cubby and the shower-lavatory cube -- but when the hull was allowed to go transparent, these cubes were just dark blocks against the starfield all around and overhead.

He pulled his elasticized jeans above the hemline of the dress, revealing opaque support hose.

The pupils were black and bright as obsidian, the iris opaque with fury, the whites engorged with blood.

He turned slowly, the ergometer held gingerly between the two forefingers of each hand in order that the opaque material of the suit should not block off the telltale radiation.

At any rate, Fanchon was floating the leaves on the water, and why she wasted her time that way was similarly opaque.

For these perfectly supple beings rejoiced in executing aerial evolutions, flinging out wild rhythmical streamers, intertwining with one another in spirals, concentrating into opaque spheres, cubes, cones, and all sorts of fantastical volumes.

The small pointed face was all eyes staring at some dreadful prospect, the milky opaque skin which never tanned or freckled was grow ing more translucent.

The old man walked towards the beach, and leaned against the gunnel of the boat, and there he remained with his keen gray eye fixed upon the distance, which was now one opaque mass, except where the white foam of the waters gleamed through the darkness of the night!

She danced aside as she played, drifting in and out of the opaque steam, and behind the hanging shades, turning as she went.

Once our speed steadied, Jinny opaqued the windows, swiveled her seat to face me, and folded her arms.