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Example sentences for "locket"

Lexicographically close words:
lock; locked; locker; lockers; lockes; lockets; locking; lockit; lockjaw; lockout
  1. Round his neck he wore a locket with a portrait of his wife--Marie de Meudon.

  2. Her fingers became entangled in the ribbon of the general's locket that I had tied round my neck, and by accident the locket opened.

  3. As a further expression of her approval, she has presented the president with a silver chain, and all the members of the order wear, as their regalia, a silver chain and a locket with the queen's portrait.

  4. He opened the locket and presented it to the archduchess.

  5. Francis opened it hastily, and contemplated the precious locket a good while.

  6. I wish we could find the locket and prove that Mrs. Stone didn’t take it,” said Connie soberly.

  7. In my opinion, the locket never was stolen.

  8. But I recall showing the locket to Mrs. Stone.

  9. Maybe the locket was thrown out with the garbage,” speculated Eileen.

  10. After you showed her the locket that day in the kitchen, you dropped it into your pocket and forgot the matter entirely.

  11. Say, maybe the golden locket is in there!

  12. Illustration: She held a golden locket on a chain.

  13. Mrs. Stone admired it and remarked that it was the most beautiful locket she had ever seen.

  14. So this is the locket you were certain Mrs. Stone took?

  15. If the locket were lost, Mrs. Stone would be responsible, because she did all the kitchen work that day.

  16. It was my wedding locket which I set great store by.

  17. I left the locket lying on the kitchen table and entered the living room.

  18. The locket might be pawned, but Juli shook her head.

  19. That locket could save him, this was an excellent opportunity, such as might not again present itself.

  20. It's a locket set with diamonds and emeralds," Sinang told the jeweler.

  21. Cabesang Tales took the locket and made several turns about the room, with his heart beating violently and his hands trembling.

  22. But--said her conscience--he will at least know that I preferred to pawn myself rather than the locket he gave me.

  23. It was the same locket that Maria Clara had worn during the fiesta in San Diego and which she had in a moment of compassion given to a leper.

  24. Her fingers struck against the locket and she pressed it to her lips, but immediately wiped them from fear of contagion, for that locket set with diamonds and emeralds had come from a leper.

  25. In exchange for your revolver I leave the locket you desired so much.

  26. And as, blindly, he obeyed, passing rapidly through a low doorway and so up a dark staircase, he slipped the locket back to its place with a sort of groan.

  27. At her quick frown when he promised her both hair and locket as her reward.

  28. And in the bright, fresh light she saw the gold locket lying open on the sleeper's breast.

  29. Then stooping, her long, lissome fingers busied themselves stealthily with the thin gold chain about the sick man's neck; for there was something in the locket attached to it which was hers by right now.

  30. On this blouse rested a tiny gold locket which held the portrait of her sailor brother.

  31. The locket was still on the counter after Vivian had left, when the lady coming forward observed it, and saw the names on the surface.

  32. Under these circumstances," Helene said, "the locket certainly belongs to you.

  33. Miss Merton shut up the locket with a click and returned it to her bosom.

  34. I have a better claim upon the locket than any one," she said.

  35. She stooped suddenly forward, and picked up a locket from the floor.

  36. She drew the locket from her bosom and, holding it out, touched a spring.

  37. Be so good as to put that locket upon the table and leave the room.

  38. On the contrary, she slipped the locket into the bosom of her gown.

  39. Why----" She held the locket tightly in her hand.

  40. Miss Merton clenched the locket in her hand, as though she feared for its safety.

  41. Perhaps you will be good enough to place the locket on that table and leave the room.

  42. She took an old-fashioned gold locket from the bosom of her dress, and, opening it, held it out for Mr. Clifford to see.

  43. So that all the jewellery she now had was the gold watch and the locket with the portrait of her father.

  44. In her locket she has some plaster from the wall that she heard through, and she says she sleeps with it pressed to her lips.

  45. Swing a locket in front of you, holding the end of the chain with both hands.

  46. If you think of the movement of a pendulum, the locket will swing back and forth.

  47. Oh, here it is," she added, and held it out to me to open for her the tiny padlock-shaped locket which hung from it.

  48. She asked me to cut a few of the silky hairs from the baby's head, and then one little curl from her own, and laying them with the other, she shut the locket and asked for a piece of paper and pencil.

  49. Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it; Never a penny was there in it, Save the binding 'round it.

  50. Before Bell knew what she was about to do, Marion had thrust the locket into her bosom, then laid (not thrown) her arms around her neck, and kissed her on the cheek.

  51. The locket I have before seen in her possession.

  52. He intends, as soon as you are buried, to have the locket dug up and the paper in it opened and read.

  53. With a sudden stride which surprised the guard surrounding him, Kohlhaas walked close up to the man, untying the locket from around his neck as he did so.

  54. The locket which the girl wore hidden there arrested the sword that was about to take her life; the portrait caught the eye of the assassin; he uttered a cry of surprise, of horror.

  55. After a few minutes she carefully replaced the locket in her breast, wiped her eyes, rose, assembled her goats and walked slowly back to her cottage.

  56. That hidden locket filled her mind so full that she must speak about it, and she artfully began to talk about dress, to work the conversation round to that beloved topic.

  57. Oh, you're thinking about that swell locket of yours.

  58. What was the good of a locket, and such a locket as Beata's, if other people didn't see and admire?

  59. Something as bright as the diamond nails glistened on the locket on Beata's lap.

  60. Without another pause the locket was out of its case, slipped on a ribbon, and the ribbon tied round Beata's neck.

  61. By all means," said the kind young soldier, and they set to work with a will, but without success; no locket was to be seen.

  62. You carry a locket hanging from a silver chain round your shirt, don't you?

  63. The locket consists of a frame, without the photograph which used to be set in it.

  64. In the most natural manner he flung open his overcoat, pulled away his evening tie, tore open his collar, and produced from under the rumpled shirt front a locket suspended by a fine gold chain round his neck.

  65. I managed to slip the locket into Sue's pocket, and made off.

  66. How do you s'pose, mother, as the locket did get inter Cinderella's pocket?

  67. Some one put that locket in yer pocket; ef it worn't yerself, it wor another.

  68. Another instant and he would be arrested and the locket found on his person.

  69. Don't yer think, Cinderella, as it wor he put the locket in your pocket?

  70. The guilty party wot stole the locket an' transferred it by sleight-of-'and to poor Sue is no less a person than yer own father, Connie Harris.

  71. She have found out who really stole the locket and put it into her pocket.

  72. Mother, it were the man as went with Cinderella inter the shop; it wor he wot stole the locket and then put it inter her pocket.

  73. Then hup comes a man wot said as he had a pawnshop, and that inter the pawnshop had come a man and a gel ter buy a ring, and when they come hout there wor a diamond locket missing.

  74. His hope--for he had a hope--was that Sue had come back without ever discovering the locket which he had transferred to her pocket.

  75. When Harris took the locket he might have been flattening his nose against the window-pane at the pawnbroker's; he might have seen all that was taking place.

  76. She and a man were in my shop just now, and one or other of 'em stole a valuable diamond locket from me.

  77. You never had, perhaps, a certain gold locket and ring?

  78. Yes,' added the second, 'and it was a "locket and gold ring.

  79. And while he waited, not knowing what to do, he heard a little voice say: "If I bring four wings to you To fasten on your horse's shoe Will you give me for my locket The sparkling diamond in your pocket?

  80. Lucy Locket Lost her pocket; Kitty Fisher Found it; Nothing in it, Nothing in it, But the binding Round it.

  81. An aged and decrepid woman was leaning over him; she was resting upon her knees, in one hand holding the lamp and in the other the locket which had already exercised such an important influence upon his destiny.

  82. She possessed only one picture of him, a tiny profile photograph which she wore always in a locket engraved with her name.

  83. She knew him because his face was just like the face in the locket she wore.

  84. He put her locket into her hands hastily.

  85. He handed her a small locket with a broken chain.

  86. For she had forgotten; she had lost the locket the afternoon of her drive with Patricia.

  87. She drew from the bosom of her dress the locket she always wore and opened it.

  88. It was your losing the locket that checkmated me.

  89. And she--did she think I had forgotten how I gave her that little locket so long ago?

  90. She regarded the locket with a quaint sadness.

  91. At its end was a little heart-shaped locket of dull gold, with a diamond sunk deep in each side.


  92. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "locket" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bangle; bead; bracelet; brooch; chain; charm; chatelaine; circle; coronet; crown; diadem; earring; gem; jewel; locket; necklace; pendant; pin; rhinestone; ring; stone; tiara; torque; wampum; wristband