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gem

[jem] / dʒɛm /


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As Dodgers starting pitcher Emmet Sheehan turned in a two-hit gem over the course of six scoreless innings, De Paula carried the offense.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

"The last couple of weeks in training, he has been amazing. I think we have got a gem there, to be honest."

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

“Lioness” and “MobLand” are violent fun, “Colin From Accounts” is terrific, ”Diarra From Detroit” is an underrated gem and the sports lineup is solid.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

This 10,520 square-foot gem in Palm Beach County.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

She sent this didactic gem to several markets, but it found no purchaser, and she was inclined to agree with Mr. Dashwood that morals didn’t sell.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

She also noted that as the diamond sector softens, shoppers have become more interested in colored gems.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

As the man-made gems became mainstream, they increasingly threatened diamonds’ status as the ultimate luxury good, sending prices for both natural and synthetic stones tumbling.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

Pigeon Forge, Tenn., like many regional gems, thrives from its proximity to nearby towns but is a haul and a half to get to from Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

How to get the look: Fairycore-inspired make-up is in, which means sparkles, face gems and glitter.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

It shone like moonlit silver, and was studded with white gems.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

A search for “Barbie” on the company’s website returns rose-gold jewelry and pink gemmed rings.

From Reuters Jul. 23, 2023

Moreover, the first images of crosses portray them more as slender, gemmed staffs than as sturdy instruments of execution.

From Washington Post Apr. 14, 2017

The passing rivers, the sounds rising from street gratings, the gemmed bridges were recognizable in name, but transposed to a different key.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2014

Depicted in his role as minister of justice, he wears an impressively gemmed and starchy crown, but the face below it looks miserable.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2010

It is said to have cost fifty thousand dollars, as we can well believe, since it is gemmed with diamonds and other precious stones.

From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

When I woke I saw Mulvaney, the night-dew gemming his mustache, leaning on his rifle at picket, lonely as Prometheus on his rock, with I know not what vultures tearing his liver.

From International Short Stories English by Various

Bells of dew glittered upon the bushes rooted in the walls, and upon the ivy-grown pillars; and gemming the countless spiders' webs stretched from bough to bough, showed they were all unbroken.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

That door was flung back, and in the square of dripping darkness stood Creed Bonbright, his face death white, his eyes wide and fixed, the rain gemming his uncovered yellow hair.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan

Lady Frances observed it, and smiling said,— "You are gemming my ornaments, setting them in crystal instead of gold."

From The Buccaneer A Tale by Mrs. S. C. Hall

And so all the magnificence and beauty of the daily heavens, and the nightly gemming of the empty places with perpetually burning stars, are lost to them!

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Alexander Maclaren




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