RUBY in a Sentence
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28 example sentences for RUBY, such as:
1. The ruby sets off the diamond.
2. Her ruby necklace brightened her face.
3. The tiara was set with diamonds and rubies.
4. He had rubies and emeralds and diamonds stuck all over him.
5. A bright red spot appeared on its smooth surface, like a ruby on Parian marble.
2. Her ruby necklace brightened her face.
3. The tiara was set with diamonds and rubies.
4. He had rubies and emeralds and diamonds stuck all over him.
5. A bright red spot appeared on its smooth surface, like a ruby on Parian marble.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of RUBY
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ruby
n. a deep and vivid red color
n. a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1 That's a diamond--that's a ruby.
2 Home she meant; the lamplit room; the ruby curtains; and Papa reading aloud.
3 A bright red spot appeared on its smooth surface, like a ruby on Parian marble.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
4 It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is blue in shade instead of ruby red.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
5 All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips.
6 The King of Ceilan rode through his city with a large ruby in his hand, as the ceremony of his coronation.
7 Do no such thing, I beg of you; he would only send you another, formed of a magnificent sapphire, or hollowed out of a gigantic ruby.
8 The headlights blazed on the clots of ice in the road so that the tiniest lumps gave mountainous shadows, and the taillight cast a circle of ruby on the snow behind.
9 This brought them, by the end of the repast, to swallowing a drink which from the color of the ruby had passed to that of a pale topaz.
10 He had rubies and emeralds and diamonds stuck all over him.
11 And he waved a thin hand which ought really to have been covered with royal signet rings made of rubies.
12 He ascended into grottos paved with emeralds, with panels of rubies, and the roof glowing with diamond stalactites.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
Context Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
13 The crowd moved to and fro in the rooms like an ebb and flow of turquoises, rubies, emeralds, opals, and diamonds.
14 This box contained an unctuous substance partly solid, of which it was impossible to discover the color, owing to the reflection of the polished gold, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, which ornamented the box.
15 Gray wool for uniforms was now almost literally more priceless than rubies, and Ashley was wearing the familiar homespun.
Example Sentence:
1 Her ruby necklace brightened her face.
2 The ruby sets off the diamond.
3 The tiara was set with diamonds and rubies.