Ice pellets are a form of precipitation consisting of small, translucent balls of ice.

He held a translucent ball in his hand.

There was a face visible in the depths of that translucent ball.

Below hung a pair of translucent balls, the pallid blue color of Roquefort cheese.

In the Galapagos, a red translucent ball had rolled along the grass at her.

And it came to rest grinning, a large translucent rubbery ball of fleeting colors.

His right hand held a translucent ball of light, which limned his face.

He emptied the syringe gently, thin knuckly fingers working with great delicacy, forming a translucent golden ball that hung motionless before him, perfectly spherical.

In a few minutes all six had the translucent golden balls floating in front of them.

That's the principal trick of Congolese cooking: rubbing two leaves together to give color and taste to another day's translucent, nutritionally blank ball of manioc.