Like sheer fabric or sautéed onions

Usage examples of translucent.

She saw not a real flesh-and-blood person but a translucent apparition surrounded by dark swirling blotches of black ichor.

The skin translucent there, blotched and discolored, the veins swollen and twisted.

Low clouds carrying the threat of more moisture turned the sky a dark translucent oyster gray, pearlized and thick.

There were garnet-red cherries, peridot grapes, apples like great rubies streaked with gold and amber, amethyst blueberries, strawberries glowing like pink charcoal, yellow pears of topaz, lucid gooseberries of translucent green quartz, quinces still on their twigs, melons, pomegranates, polished damsons, figs like blushing drops of jade.

Although eight was not a particularly overwhelming number, all eight openings were covered with huge sheets of clear polyurethane due to the construction, the translucent curtains apparently intended to keep dust off the tombs inside the alcoves.

At this Questioner gestured, and Firekeeper noticed how the golden yellow light that illuminated the room came from translucent blocks set in the wall.

Midnight drifted through the perpetual twilight of Merod Schene DownTown, tall, brittle as leaf gold beaten translucent.

The translucent colours spilt in uneven grots down the white that glinted like the inside of a shell.

Commercial airliners began for a while to trail those terse translucent ad-banners usually reserved for like Piper Cubs over football games and July beaches.

Reflecting crystal facets of the translucent edges haloed the monolith with insubstantial shimmer, but the blue-green shadowy depths held its unmelted heart.

Some were translucent lemon-coloured, others dark amber or cognac, with all shades in between, while again there were those that were untinted, clear as snow-melt in a mountain stream, with frosted facets that reflected the flames of the smoky little fire.

When the sisters came to Willey Water, the lake lay all grey and visionary, stretching into the moist, translucent vista of trees and meadow.

An exquisite island, the gem of the Adriatic, hilly and lush, a place of dreamy inlets and translucent, glowing seas.

A side door opened onto a spiral staircase, cobwebby steps of nearly translucent aerogel ascending and descending into a dim blue mist in each direction.

The special rounds had dispersed airburst aerosols that congealed into vast translucent sheets.