Gem

//d͡ʒɛm//

"Gem" in a Sentence (26 examples)

At last, the gem was in his hands.

"Pretty gem, isn't it?" Not knowing if it was a suitable subject or not, but anyway I tried to get her interest that way.

It's not as if just anybody can write a literary gem.

She was a real gem of a person.

The gem I bought from the shop is authentic.

Americo Carrillo, the architect who will oversee the work, described the church as "a gem from Peru's colonial era."

That guy is a gem.

Algiers is a geographical gem.

This is a gem.

"Cassandra, you can meditate focusing on an object, like a gem or a cactus plant." "I'll try, Sheela."

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And on her head she wore a tyre of gold, Adornd with gemmes and owches wondrous fayre, Whose passing price vneath was to be told;

Of six preceding ancestors, that gem, Conferr’d by testament to the sequent issue, Hath it been owed and worn. This is his wife; That ring’s a thousand proofs.

[…] then silent Night With this her solemn Bird and this fair Moon, And these the Gemms of Heav’n, her starrie train:

Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.

She's an absolute gem.

Standout “Hidden Knives” is the kind of new wave-leaning punk gem John Hughes would’ve loved, while “So Beneath You” is a teeth-baring, roiling tune.

a gem of wit

c. 1668, John Denham (translator), Of Old Age by Cato the Elder, Part 3, in Poems and Translations, with The Sophy, London: H. Herringman, 4th edition, 1773, p. 35, Then from the Joynts of thy prolifick Stemm A swelling Knot is raised (call’d a Gemm)

Among the crooked Lanes, on every Hedge, / The Glow-Worm lights his Gem […].

1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p. xcii, In about twelve days the sprouts from the gems of the planted cane are seen […]

2025, Associated Press, Crochet gets 1st career shutout and complete game as Red Sox beat Rays for 9th straight win by Associated Press, He didn’t walk a batter in his 100-pitch gem

[T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully.

A few bright and beautiful stars gemmed the wide concave of heaven[…].

Above was the firmament, gemmed with worlds, and sublime in immensity.

The rain Shook from fruit bushes in new showers again As I brushed past, and gemmed the window pane.

And those salt tears your lashes gemmed / Were but the breath of flame distilled; / Flame white and pure, and diademmed / With suffering,—pain with joy fulfilled.

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