The day pulls to a close" is a barbarism, possibly entirely opaque if you fail to recognize it as a translation of "The day draws to a close."

When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber.

Things are very opaque in Algeria.

The truth is opaque and consequently imperceptible.

You don't know what that small opaque bottle contains.

The Algerian regime is one of the most opaque regimes on the planet.

This is one of the world's most opaque regimes.

Listening to a Portuguese conversation is an unreal experience. A completely opaque string of phonemes, occasionally punctuated by a crystal-clear "Sim, senhor."

Opaque? Not at all. Intuitively obvious to the most casual observer.

Part of this snow, which is not dissolved during summer, impregnated with rain and snow-water, is frozen during winter, and forms that opaque and porous ice of which the Lower Glaciers are composed.