RUBY in a Sentence

Learn RUBY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
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.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of RUBY
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
2  Home she meant; the lamplit room; the ruby curtains; and Papa reading aloud.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
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
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
5  All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  The King of Ceilan rode through his city with a large ruby in his hand, as the ceremony of his coronation.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable.
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
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.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
10  He had rubies and emeralds and diamonds stuck all over him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  And he waved a thin hand which ought really to have been covered with royal signet rings made of rubies.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
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.
13  The crowd moved to and fro in the rooms like an ebb and flow of turquoises, rubies, emeralds, opals, and diamonds.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 96. The Contract.
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October.
15  Gray wool for uniforms was now almost literally more priceless than rubies, and Ashley was wearing the familiar homespun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
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.