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jewel

[joo-uhl] / ˈdʒu əl /




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"When Bake Off should be crumbling after 17 seasons, Nigella Lawson is making Channel 4's crown jewel fresher than ever," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

“It is not going to be easily given up. It is the jewel in the crown.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Former President Reagan called the right to vote “the crown jewel of American liberties.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

"My heart leaps with joy when I see ice that looks like a jewel," said the 41-year-old, as he poured cold hojicha tea into a glass filled with a large, clear sphere.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

The jewel tones shift from ocean blues to cobalts and magentas, from crimson reds to sunflower yellows.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Forest are one of the club's Everton and their fans would hope to surpass, not bolster them by selling one of their crown jewels to them.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Faux jewels, sequins and shiny baubles were Parton’s signature once she became a household name.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

“This time, Zaslav’s going to walk away with a billion-dollar parachute and Paramount may end up with these crown jewels assets when it comes to movie-making and television programming,” Proaño said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

In this tale of an imprisoned queen, her supposedly dead husband, and her struggle against a usurper, brilliantly characterized arias succeed each other like jewels, ratcheting up the emotion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

In this one, she was with a girl who had white-blond hair, inside a treehouse that was made completely of jewels.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

Sumac guinea foul with za’atar beetroot and jeweled cauliflower rice.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

If the thieves who dropped Empress Eugenie’s crown outside the Louvre during this year’s heist, sparked an interest in jeweled headgear, try this encyclopedic guide to the world’s most famous tiaras.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

Iranian-style jewelry studded with jade and other precious stones were popular during the Ottoman period, and Joyce may have applied his newfound skills to crafting rings, earrings, necklaces, and intricate jeweled turban aigrettes.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 11, 2024

Any sweet potato will work — Japanese yams, garnet sweet potatoes, jeweled sweet potatoes, purple sweet potatoes — whatever you have available.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2023

In the center, there’s a framed black-and-white photo of a Black man in a jeweled crown.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

And at night, when the ticky-tacky disappears and the jeweling lights go on, the happy, hoppy daydream becomes a garden of visual delight.

From Time Magazine Archive

She will miss this glorious light warming the inside of her skin and jeweling the trees, the grass, the lily pond beyond the hedge.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

We would not advise jeweling the pivot holes, because there is but slight friction, except to the foot of the balance pivot, which should be jeweled with a plano-convex garnet.

From Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology by Anonymous

Evidently the blossoms had just been gathered, for the raindrops of the previous night still sparkled among their petals, jeweling with brilliancy their kaleidoscopic riot of color.

From The Wall Between by Sara Ware Bassett

For a half hour the torrents fell--then the sun burst forth, jeweling the forest with a million scintillant gems; but today the ape-man, usually alert to the changing wonders of the jungle, saw them not.

From Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Insurers paid out £106,700 for the loss, but Prosecutor Julian Winship said there were only seven Fabergé sets - containing a jewelled egg, watch, whisky bottle, cigars and humidor - in existence.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

In a vast, dimly lit main hall spanning four levels, visitors gazed at chariots, household items, jewelled ornaments and, at the centre, Tutankhamun's iconic golden mask.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2025

Bridgerton star Charithra Chandran's dress had a jewelled vine detail.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2024

Both men remain in Macau prison, a far cry from the jewelled opulence of the VIP parlours they once presided over.

From Reuters ● Sep. 19, 2022

When he came out he was bearing in his arms a great load of treasure: things of gold, silver, copper, and bronze; many beads and chains and jewelled ornaments.

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

From where he sat he could see the trembling lights of the village jewelling the rim of the bay like a circlet of stars.

From Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett

Her light had not yet reached the harbor, the further side of which was shadowy and suggestive, with dim coves and rich glooms and jewelling lights.

From Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The ice glistened on the naked trees, encasing and jewelling them.

From Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

So we stroll and look at the shops, at the filigree gold jewelling of the peasants, at a good bookshop.

From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Store sufficient of raiment is all she need have, and such jewelling as it shall please you to bestow on her.

From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by W. (William) Rainey




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