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Example sentences for "jewelry"

Lexicographically close words:
jewelled; jeweller; jewellers; jewellery; jewells; jewels; jezail; jiang; jib
  1. A fat roll of bills and a handful of jewelry he transferred to the pockets of his coat.

  2. He pawned several things in Pershore--small articles of jewelry belonging to his wife--giving his name as George Cross, and an address in Pershore.

  3. It happened that a quantity of jewelry had been stolen from a well-known society lady a few weeks before, and pawnbrokers had had special notice of the fact; hence the firm's precaution.

  4. I understood that Hall had pawned things of some value before this salver," said Quarles; "jewelry belonging to his wife, for instance.

  5. The coroner has her jewelry and things of that sort.

  6. This National Geographic Society special details the evolution from raw material to cut and polished gem, outlines many of the steps involved in marketing gemstones, and examines some of the world's most famous jewelry collections.

  7. An Oriya or Telugu Brahman officiates at marriages, and the bride is presented with jewelry as a substitute for the bride-price (voli) in money.

  8. As types of female jewelry and tattooing, the following examples may be cited:-- 1.

  9. But there was a chance for life, and the mother, powerless to interpose in her infant's behalf, often sent with it some trinkets or trifling articles of jewelry that would serve perhaps to identify it, if it should live.

  10. The ring was the only article of jewelry worn by a Roman citizen after he reached the age of manhood (section 99), and good taste limited him to a single ring.

  11. The Doctor was remarkable for his prolific display of jewelry and medals of honor, and by his extensive display of beard.

  12. He succumbed to the lure of commercialism finally, and is now in the jewelry business in the "down-town district" of New York City.

  13. Visitors always leave more or less money in exchange for small mementos of the island, and thus aid in the support of the various fancy goods stores, photograph, and jewelry shops on the Strada Reale.

  14. But these nurses seem to form a class by themselves, and the taste for cheap jewelry could hardly be carried to a greater extent than it is with them.

  15. Some of them were so covered with rings, bracelets, bangles, and necklaces as to amount to itinerant jewelry bazars.

  16. All that they tell me: about your receiving letters, post-cards, jewelry .

  17. The son of a lord had ruined himself in jewelry for her, the impersonator was nearly off his head for love of her, gee, she did have a good time!

  18. And the jewelry and the sweets her Pa bought her, my!

  19. He glanced at her rings, the jewelry round her neck, her expensive gown that would keep a patient for a year or two.

  20. The fabulous jewelry hanging upon such trash now stirred his bile.

  21. I still had a little jewelry left that he had not persuaded me to pawn or sell for his benefit, and on this I raised enough money to buy a ticket to Seattle.

  22. The next day Swiftwater went to San Francisco on money I furnished him after I had pawned my diamonds with one of the best jewelry houses in Seattle.

  23. They made me a present of a set of jewelry made out of the gold they had got themselves.

  24. They made her replace the jewelry in Nora's and Edna's suit cases.

  25. Four blocks farther up the avenue is another great store in white marble--a jewelry shop of international reputation.

  26. After dinner we felt like seeing such Parisian specialties as we might see without distressing exertion, and so we sauntered through the brilliant streets and looked at the dainty trifles in variety stores and jewelry shops.

  27. We noticed that in the jewelry stores they had some of the articles marked "gold" and some labeled "imitation.

  28. Her jewelry marts are filled with artists in mosaic.

  29. The Emperor wore a cap, frock coat and pantaloons, all of some kind of plain white drilling--cotton or linen and sported no jewelry or any insignia whatever of rank.

  30. They wear, from crown to jaw, curious strings of old coins, after the manner of the belles of Tiberias, and brass jewelry upon their wrists and in their ears.

  31. The jewelry was shown to Count Goerlitz, and he immediately identified it as having belonged to his wife.

  32. The agent refused this claim, as he contended that the jewelry was not included in the insurance, and the Count abstained from pressing it.

  33. The jewelry consisted of a lump of molten gold, and some brooches, bracelets and rings.

  34. By the wreck these two had lost much of value in clothing, jewelry and money; but their greatest loss was that of a necklace of twelve flawless diamonds and fourteen rubies.

  35. The folks were all in their cabins, save the skipper and Bill Brennen, who were digging the harbor's cache of jewelry from the head of a thicket of spruce-tuck.

  36. The brilliant jewelry shops and the Mont de Piete of Monte Carlo are equally prosperous.

  37. One notorious Parisienne has a collection of jewelry for her dog that is worth a fortune, collars of cabuchon emeralds and diamonds, of pink pearls, of cunningly wrought gold and lucky jade.

  38. Her superb jewelry was taken from her and divided among the children of Henry IV.

  39. When a young lady has been robed for a grand ball her maid opens and places on the toilet table before her her jewelry case, that she may select such as will be the most appropriate for the occasion.

  40. He rubbed the palms of his hands together as he had over the scintillation of the jewelry counters.

  41. At times the gleam of the brasswork would exercise the same hypnosis over his senses as the scintillation of the jewelry counters of the store, and he would rub his hands crisply together.

  42. John Prather was regarding the jewelry display, where the diamonds were scintillating under the light from the milk glass roof, with a smile of amused contemplation.

  43. On the southwest corner of Prince street is Ball & Black's palatial jewelry store.

  44. It is nothing uncommon to meet in New York society ladies who have on dry-goods and jewelry to the value of from thirty to fifty thousand dollars.

  45. The entire police force of the city was set to work watching the pawn-shops and jewelry stores where the thief might try to dispose of the stolen property.

  46. Upon one occasion the members of the department had complete possession for several hours of every part of the building containing the immense and valuable stock of jewelry of Messrs.

  47. Chatham street is the paradise of dealers in mock jewelry and old clothes.

  48. The description applies also to the various Manufacturing and Co-operative Jewelry Associations, and all schemes of a kindred nature.

  49. Jewelry is at once removed from its settings, and the gold is either melted or the engraving is burnished out, so as in either case to make identification impossible.

  50. Persons wearing prominent shirt pins or other articles of jewelry frequently lose them in this way, and these wretches will often boldly take a purse out of a lady's hand or a bracelet from her arm, and make off.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jewelry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    glass; ice; paste