beads

Example Sentences

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Tiny flowers made from minuscule pearl beads dot her deep-red nails.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

A devout Catholic, it was there that she gave my dad her most precious gift: her own mom’s rosary beads.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

Bright teardrop earrings hang from metal tins filled with Japanese cooling beads.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

One trader sifted through pink, green and purple beads that she said would be moulded into e-cigarette casings sold in the Middle East.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

She left a few things inside the hole: a precious box of matches, some glass beads that had come off Aunt Shuvai’s bracelet, some of the copper wire Uncle Kufa used to decorate his snuffboxes.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer