gemstone
Example Sentences
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The structure included a rounded base and a top with multiple flat faces resembling a cut gemstone.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026
These include unusual ones such as the gemstone eudialyte and steenstrupine, which contains other rare earths used in high-tech devices.
From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026
In his hand he holds neither gemstone nor gold, but a gossamer-thin 20-shekel note held together with tape.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024
To grow the gem, Ms Boons started with a ruby "seed" taken from waste gemstone offcuts.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2024
They laid the carved gemstone on the table in front of them and started to inspect it closely, muttering little scholarly notes to each other and passing the magnifying lenses back and forth.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
Vocabulary lists containing gemstone
Southeast Asia - Introductory
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