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Six example sentences with diaphanous, each labelled with its topic.
The painter gave the figure a diaphanous veil through which the whole face and both hands remain visible.
Art
Diaphanous curtains let the streetlight through in every night scene, so the actors are lit without a single lamp.
Movies
She shot through a diaphanous scarf to soften the light without losing the outline of the window behind it.
Photography
A diaphanous curtain wall of etched glass lets daylight flood the hall while hiding the street outside.
Architecture
The jellyfish is diaphanous, so faint that the lamp behind the tank shows straight through its bell.
Science
The poem wraps the dawn in diaphanous mist, thin enough that every hedge still shows through.
Literature
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