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adjective

pellucid

translucently clear; easily understood

In a sentence

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

  • The lake near the pass is so pellucid that swimmers can count stones four meters below the surface.

    Travel

  • Her prose is pellucid, and a reader never has to go back over a sentence to find the subject.

    Literature

  • The chairman gave a pellucid account of why rates would stay high, and even the shortest report quoted him accurately.

    Economics

  • The essay is pellucid, laying out a difficult argument about free will in language a first year student can follow.

    Philosophy

  • The painter's pellucid glazes let light pass through five thin layers and bounce back off the white ground beneath.

    Art

  • Her lecture on relativity was so pellucid that the physics majors and the visiting poets left equally satisfied.

    Science

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