How to Use prismatic in a Sentence

prismatic

adjective
  • As the sun set, the sky itself looked like one of her prismatic paintings.
    Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 11 June 2023
  • In the specs, both cars have prismatic cells from the same supplier, LG Chem.
    Car and Driver, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Their glow stick-like hues aside, the pretty prismatic set was just $34.
    Devon Abelman, Allure, 15 May 2017
  • The Tribeca Sand mat has a prismatic pattern in warm jewel hues.
    Kim Cook, The Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2017
  • Jeevan and Kirsten head east, the direction Frank liked to face in the mornings when the sun rose prismatic over the water.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The film delivers a prismatic retelling of the Cooper saga through four of the case’s prime suspects, all of whom are now deceased.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • As the sun passes during the day, the frames gleam with changing prismatic colors against the darker glass.
    Frank Edgerton Martin, Star Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The prismatic nails in question, which were created by Thee Stallion's nail artist, Coca Michelle, can be seen on the fourth slide of the carousel.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Her prismatic hair and makeup echoed her tongue-in-cheek tunes in all the right ways — just as Lil Cherry intended.
    Devon Abelman, Allure, 25 Mar. 2022
  • How did the paradox of the universe, full of prismatic galaxies and endless emptiness, come to be?
    New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • The first sign of fall—beyond a crispness in the air—is the transition of green and brown forests into prismatic seas of yellow, gold, orange, and red.
    Daliah Singer, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2022
  • From the Parisian sidewalks to the cobblestones in New York City, the street style stars are also on board, wearing prismatic crochet and ribbed co-ords.
    Vogue, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Its round, 60-foot prismatic stage is made of dichroic glass and LED screens with eight subsections that can be rotated and raised.
    Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Penned in 2019, the play is prismatic, set across several postindustrial cities in the North of England, where Stephens (and I) were born.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2022
  • The energy is that of a reckoning around the Race Man, the prismatic figure through which the notion of Black identity is formed.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Many jobs, many people, many parts: a prismatic Jared-orama.
    Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2017
  • Follow her lead and shop her top and more prismatic options below.
    Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The submersible Esprit was also equipped with a rear-facing prismatic mirror that had been plucked from an Army tank.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2019
  • There’s no better way to break out of our sweatpants-and-sweatshirt cocoons than with a sublime, prismatic look.
    Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Like facets in a jewel, such moments seem to put our lives into prismatic relief.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Now, more than ever, is her chance to prove what she’s always known: that the many sides of Ware’s prismatic career and identity can co-exist at once.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Glass perfume bottles act as prismatic objets, and a marble slab styled with gold bijoux is part catchall, part art.
    Jessica Dailey, ELLE Decor, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Does this not sound precisely like the guy who’d drop 87 minutes of prismatic flute improv, new-age synth washes, and ayahuasca growls?
    Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
  • But some days at recess, my classmates pulled the corners of their eyes back so that their prismatic green or blue pupils disappeared behind taut slits of skin.
    Longreads, 1 Aug. 2017
  • It’s the prismatic women behind the music, who finally get the chance to show every one of their different hues.
    Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The photographs are displayed in mirrored frames that send prismatic halos floating across the gallery floor.
    New York Times, 29 July 2021
  • Indeed, on my own decidedly brown skin, all three shades are rich and prismatic.
    Jihan Forbes, Allure, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Her book is a prismatic examination of all the notes in her own life — the ones that sound care and the ones that don’t — and how knowing the difference offers a kind of sanity.
    Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Stay for twilight after the official sunset time for a prismatic experience.
    Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2024
  • Pouch and prismatic cells can be packed closely together, but because cylindrical cells were already being mass-produced for portable electronics, Tesla was able to make lower-cost EVs in the 2010s.
    Wesley Chang, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2024

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