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adjective

limpid

clear and bright

In a sentence

Six example sentences with limpid, each labelled with its topic.

  • The pool at dawn was so limpid that the tiles on the bottom photographed sharper than the swimmers.

    Photography

  • Once the mill closed, the river ran limpid again and trout returned to pools nobody had fished for decades.

    Environment

  • We swam in a limpid cove where you could count pebbles four meters down without goggles.

    Travel

  • A good consomme should be limpid enough to read a newspaper through the bowl, with not a fleck of fat.

    Cooking

  • Vermeer's interiors glow with a limpid light that seems to come through the window and settle on every surface.

    Art

  • The quartz crystal was so limpid that the students could read the label on the far side of the specimen.

    Science

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