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    Use "gem" in a sentence

    gem example sentences

    gem


    gemmed


    gems


    1. adorned with a single ruby gem and held it before


    2. I came to the conclusion that the plane itself was the diamond of desire, a gem sometimes of dubious origin, but essential for this tale


    3. Gem watched the reels for hours, and it was always the same; never once did he make it through without pausing at her pod, to stare at her as she slept


    4. Gem couldn’t help but marvel at his physique, and the many layers of corded muscles covering his body


    5. Gem brought her hand to her bandaged head, her own aching reminder of what comes from underestimating the man


    6. Even if he was mad, even if he purposely sabotaged the ship to land them on an infected planet, Gem couldn’t deny that he was still damned clever


    7. Like Gem, the automatons existed for one purpose – to kill


    8. Gem was accustomed to her diminutive size, actually found it had advantages when fighting larger opponents


    9. But after such a lengthy time with but the two of them alone in space, Gem was beginning to realize the Delphiniian and Argos had become friends


    10. Gem did her best to bury her smirk, finding the comment to be a polite acquiescence to the fact that Rapheal had bested him

    11. "No, not me," the man-child continued, staring up at Brice with his gem like eyes


    12. As Dzunga swayed closer, Nerissa saw this gem was


    13. gem Pappi was, when a foot banged at the door and the weak


    14. labeled a gem, not Pappi at all but Prof


    15. have to lie to that gem of a man


    16. “This is my angel of mercy she is a pure gem Billy Boy and as dear to me as a sister I couldn’t have asked for better care or a better nurse she has made this time bearable for me


    17. And this gem, from Charles Krauthammer"s latest column: „And what have been Obama"s own debt-reduction ideas? In last week"s news conference, he railed against the tax break for corporate jet owners six times


    18. She remembered now the name of the small gem, glowing from within with an almost-magickal light


    19. It could be a raw gem, or something similar


    20. It was just that it had a very strange appearance, one that could not be easily compared to the usual cuts of stone or gem

    21. He’s a real gem


    22. I’m embarrassed about my past blindness; if she wasn’t so tenacious I would have lost a gem without realizing it


    23. The gem merchant, alias mayor, could not be reached


    24. Celina’s coronet, the silver-white circlet with a single modest gem at the crest


    25. Of course,” he said, his eyes gleaming, “I do find a gem hidden in the mire once in a while


    26. I won her with my statement that my hobby was collecting beautiful rich women, and she would be the gem of my collection


    27. “Is it something to do with Gem?” I asked


    28. “And that Ruby’s a gem, isn’t she?”


    29. As Venn worked, dropping gem after gem into the iron box, his mind swirled with confused, agonized thoughts


    30. “I laid another gem on the class, did I?”

    31. And on the matter of our debates, another gem was him trying to convince me that


    32. Are you wearing yours as well, or does it warm the closet? It’s not a precious gem but you can wear it under the coat and find out how warm it is


    33. And so to legions of would-be novelists, journalists and screenwriters—not to mention "D-girls" and "manuscripts girls" from Hollywood to New York who held the hope that finding a gem might catapult them from entry level to expense account—the slush pile represented The Dream


    34. crying and gem, exploiting the air without sound


    35. You are relegated to picking past piles of toys in the machine until you find a gem


    36. Wisdom seemed like a real gem from what Sonja said about him and he was a real gentleman


    37. Canst thou see Her within thy mind? Her look is sapphirine in hue; indeed, a rare and precious gem of oceans, clouds and continents


    38. It hopped onto a gem at the far end of the


    39. The star went anti clockwise in a circle to collect each gem, its


    40. hid the gem that she had torn off her wing into the policeman’s clenched fist which covered his bad

    41. The sparkling gem that Jezzabell had left him rolled further into the chair


    42. These stars leaned against the loose copper coins the man had put into his pocket and a small green gem shaped as a semi circle reflected his brown beak


    43. He waded over to the gem, using his beak


    44. The green gem that Jezzabell had given him


    45. young cygnets who had wandered away from its mother and father picked the green gem up


    46. He opened the palm of his left hand and he looked into the green gem


    47. Inside the gem he could see a picture of Jezzabell


    48. "Where is she?" he asked, the gem revealed a plot of long grass and soft sand


    49. He threw the gem across the small lake, both of the rabbits eyes glared at the bouncing gem


    50. it skimmed the water next to the ducks, the gem landed into a set of wild bushes














































    1. It was the giant who wore the gemmed headband


    2. the colour of the flowers that gemmed the water's edge


    3. It must be then that somewhere, searching the world, perhaps in the dripping multiboxed honeycombs where light was an amber sap stored by pollen-fired bees, or in the thirty thousand lenses of the noon dragonfly's gemmed skull you might find all the colors and sights of the world in any one year


    4. The creeping tide of light gained and gained, and now they could see the colour of the flowers that gemmed the water's edge


    1. OF all the gems in the rich collection of Yoga asanas there shines forth one which, in sheer beauty, symmetry and grace, outshines all others except, perhaps, the serene Lotus, that impenetrable fortress of repose


    2. It was in a dark green leather case worked with small gems and golden scrollwork


    3. Zolla's trepidation made him want to consult the Temporal Directive, as if there would be some words of reassurance, gems of wisdom concealed in this great tome of moral guidance and philosophy


    4. universe’s palette, and then creating art that sparkles with colorful diamonds and gems,


    5. Steve stopped, lowered his head and kept looking at his feet like a scolded schoolboy, while I was fascinated by the amount of gems hidden away in the various layers of ground, making a mental note to myself to invest heavily in Topeka real estate, provided of course that I’d put all this nasty business behind me soon and live through it as well


    6. Brendan wished he had more time to investigate some of these little gems of data


    7. We are applying to join the Thai Gems and Jewellery Traders Association as an international member and they have been able to allocate us a booth at the September Trade Fair which is really good and positive news


    8. Through the gleanings of the many ways that direct Man’s inquisitive search for his roots, these gems of cognition might still be regained, to shine again as they once did with the eternal brilliance they were intended to reflect


    9. gems in the window


    10. follow her, but Ma couldn’t take her eyes off the sparking gems and

    11. conclude the gems had been in the camera before


    12. As Ralph throws the gems upward and allows his mind to track the wild arc of their rising, he sees the undead soldiers are beginning to shatter


    13. " Or, I remind them of Saint Uncumber, who miraculously grew a beard on her wedding-day, to defend her virginity; or Saint Agatha, who sacrificed her beauty by cutting off her own nose with a knife, to deter a lustful kidnapper; or the Abbess Hilda, who wildly loved expensive gems as a youth, before her call to the cloister -- in particular, a red ruby on a short neck-chain -- and how, many decades later, when Abbess Hilda was old, a tumour grew inside her throat, and upon it being removed from her body by a surgical physician, it was the exact size and shape and colour of that ruby!


    14. The furs would be traded in southern lands for luxury goods like gems and silk and wine


    15. Venn sat on the rear-deck, surrounded by piles of outlandish treasure, using a chisel to pry gems out of stolen items


    16. He chiselled gems from cups, candle-holders, "t"-shaped objects, frames and book-covers


    17. The gems went in a small iron box, with each falling little stone making a clink! noise as it was dropped in


    18. Except for the amber, the Norsemen had never seen gems like these before -- red stones, green stones, glittering transparent ones; they were obviously very precious


    19. The gems and the pieces of gold were the most exciting parts of the raid-profits


    20. The silver and the women were much less valuable than the gold and gems

    21. Those types were gems the desk lady pushed her marketing power – and because of the tiny rumour mill found out certain things


    22. If not, we gladly treasure the invaluable gems of His nature and glory, and keep them in secret


    23. about the strategy of using gems and precious stones to preserve some of your net worth


    24. He turns into gems


    25. There are also books where there are tabs with hidden gems underneath


    26. The watch was made of the finest jewels: rubies, diamonds, emeralds, and other gems


    27. The light also showed what was in the tunnel, and that was a treasure hunter’s dream: gold and gems were scattered everywhere and secret books that opened and closed on their own


    28. Then she was stopped by a mystical woman on the steps offering her gold, silver, and the finest gems; even offering Samantha an orb that could grant her every wish


    29. They were solid gold and decorated with gems and rubies


    30. The children saw that as the blue gems swept from side to side, the myriad tiny fins and turtle shells rose and fell below the waves

    31. Behind the clown stood a small golden door that had rubies and gems embedded in it


    32. Her throne was decked out in the finest gems, her seat was made out of jade and silver, and a golden saddle was made to fit the huge elephant to place her throne on its back


    33. Among his guilt-reducing gems was the assertion that masturbation is essential to masculine health and sanity because the increased flow of blood during erections keeps the penis healthy, and frequent orgasms make a man contented


    34. More Black gems grew along his arms and in his bare hands were five white nails that


    35. Now as it had shrunken, it also lost its colour and a few gems slid away from him


    36. gems that had been sewn on came off


    37. Each wing had the exact number of gems and


    38. "He can’t kill me, until the shells with gems in are split


    39. Its front wall had white sparkly coating with dashes of green gems that sparkled in the dark


    40. His mind wasn’t on artists or hidden gems

    41. F Chatham from San Francisco discovered the secret to growing Emeralds by duplicating conditions within the earth (the proper temperature, pressure and chemical properties)he was able to actually grow gems in his laboratory


    42. Possessing the same physical and optical properties as mined gems


    43. This process has remained a closely guarded family secret and in the 60 years following, has developed and grown all types of gems, rubies, sapphires and diamonds flooding the market with cheaper and easily affordable gemstones, that were virtually indistinguishable from the real gems


    44. She further said to a proud Suresh that people flocked to Vanaprastham to hear guruji’s talks that the swamiji hailed as the gems of Hindutva


    45. Tears dripped from his eyes and she was astonished as they fell to the ground and became diamond hard gems of such purity that they gleamed ice white


    46. The plumes on the warrior's headpiece nodded in the wind, and the gems on sword-hilts and harness sparkled frostily


    47. Undreamable wealth lay before the eyes of the gaping pirates; diamonds, rubies, bloodstones, sapphires, turquoises, moonstones, opals, emeralds, amethysts, unknown gems that shone like the eyes of evil women


    48. Like a true queen she lay, with her plunder heaped high about her: silks, cloth-of-gold, silver braid, casks of gems and golden coins, silver ingots, jeweled daggers and teocallis of gold wedges


    49. The light came from one of the radium gems which adorned the walls of Xuthal


    50. Her breast-plates and the circlet about her temples were adorned with gems













































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    Synonyms for "gem"

    gem treasure jewel precious stone muffin gemstone stone

    "gem" definitions

    art highly prized for its beauty or perfection


    a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry


    a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry


    a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan


    a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry