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Usage examples of "semi-transparent".

He had come out of a highly hygienic prison round like a tub, with an enormous stomach and distended cheeks of a pale, semi-transparent complexion, as though for fifteen years the servants of an outraged society had made a point of stuffing him with fattening foods in a damp and lightless cellar.

A long row of pegs, with marks which I presume were numbers, ran round the whole room, and on each was hung one of the semi-transparent bells of vitrine and a pair of the shoulder batteries which ensured respiration.

There they stood in their pentagrams, staring at that huge globe representing Akahlar, the hubs brightly glowing against the gray, semi-transparent skin of the rest, and something was happening.

Instead of sieving through the fence, I went over it, going semi-transparent in time to avoid the jolt of hitting the ground.

She was accompanied by two women wearing ash-coloured wimples, a squad of float-cams and personal security wasps and a semi-transparent entourage of entoptics: nymphs, seraphim, flying-fish and hummingbirds, star-glitter dewdrops and butterflies, in slow cascade around her wedding dress.

They coalesced abruptly into the lifesize, semi-transparent Virtual image of a human head: round, bald, cheerful.

It was a far different approach than the crystal fruits that hung throughout this vessel -- semi-transparent receptacles where individuals lived permanently immersed in virtual realities.