How to Use limpid in a Sentence

limpid

adjective

• His eyes were limpid, faraway, flooded with tears, his gaze beatific.
  — Helen Molesworth, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
• Its color is a limpid, rosy magenta, which tells me that the wine is going to be lightweight.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 June 2021
• Frankenthaler’s soak-and-stain painting technique achieved dreamy, limpid colors.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Feb. 2022
• Soup is delivered to the table as a side, a limpid broth of pork bones and ham with a warming lick of ginger.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• If water sports are your thing, head to the famously limpid waters between and around the islands.
  — Jennifer Ladonne, CNN, 24 May 2017
• Floors of white terrazzo and ceilings of blonde pine create warm, limpid spaces within.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
• The music underneath it all is limpid and watery, almost puddle-like.
  — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2026
• Enchanted Lagoon, a limpid pool in an ancient volcanic crater.
  — Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2021
• In places, workers dug beneath the water table, and some chambers now contain limpid pools of pure, crystalline water.
  — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2022
• Several of the sequences set in the military hospital offer camera moves that are as limpid and thrilling as a dance.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 May 2022
• The cuttlefish hovers in the aquarium, its fins rippling and large, limpid eyes glistening.
  — New York Times, 8 Jan. 2020
• For sheer rhythmic movement, delicacy of contour line and limpid grace in form and texture, there is nothing to approach this piece.
  — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 18 Dec. 2019
• Fez was a man of few words, and the actor’s performance had a consistent stillness to it; his limpid, gentle gaze often did the talking for him.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2023
• Her prose is limpid, her descriptions of nature knowledgeable and often exquisite.
  — Akash Kapur, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• But the limpid sophistication of the San Francisco style is apart from either.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
• Rivera depicts Natasha as a limpid flower, surrounded with armfuls of gargantuan calla lilies.
  — oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2022
• These brief, limpid essays and stories range widely in approach and subject, but cohere through avid curiosity and delight.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
• Still, Hough, whose reading is nearly two minutes shorter, wins me over with his liquid, limpid articulation.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• The Rockets have taken the Warriors-style three-point attack to a higher level, and have stiffened their once-limpid defense.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
• The singer’s easy, limpid phrasing, bright sound and expressive use of ornamentation made Elvira’s plight very touching.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Really, what makes Fossora notable is its limpid and varied songwriting.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2022
• This is a novel that works not through dazzling images or narrative pyrotechnics but through the steady accretion of clear-eyed observations relayed in limpid prose.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2020
• Today the lake’s limpid waters look inviting, but the clarity is a symptom of lifelessness—the plankton population crash has rippled across the food web.
  — Tim Folger, National Geographic, 2 Dec. 2020
• But the limpid-toned soprano went solo at 19, pursuing her own version of Western pop-soul, often with English lyrics.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
• The movie now and then risks tipping into winsome cuteness, but Chen’s limpid naturalism helps sidestep potential clichés; its emotions are honest and earned.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The magic act of Okri’s writing is his ability to maintain ambiguity while always keeping his language limpid and direct.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
• Circe mines deep satisfaction from cultivating elemental herbs, swimming in limpid bays, shaping the raw energy of the place to her magical ends.
  — Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2022
• There’s not much else to do on Salina except swimming in limpid waters off pebbly beaches, feasting on marvelously fresh fish and seafood, and drinking in the magnificent views.
  — Nicky Swallow, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2020
• The fox squirrel, sitting upright on a piece of driftwood with a pecan in its paws, took me back to a long sweep of the lower Suwannee with limpid black waters, forests of pine and magnolia trees, live oaks, and wild pecans.
  — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
• Howard’s book—meticulous, limpid, elegant, and historically alert, a literary biography more than a life—touches on most of these people.
  — Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025