SAPPHIRE in a Sentence
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13 example sentences for SAPPHIRE, such as:
1. Do look at this exquisite white sapphire.
2. I did not think two sapphires of such a fine water existed.
3. Lily stood staring vacantly at the white sapphire on its velvet bed.
4. Aramis returned home, and Athos and d'Artagnan busied themselves about pledging the sapphire.
5. Then she stripped off the large sapphire solitaire which Charles had given her as an engagement ring.
2. I did not think two sapphires of such a fine water existed.
3. Lily stood staring vacantly at the white sapphire on its velvet bed.
4. Aramis returned home, and Athos and d'Artagnan busied themselves about pledging the sapphire.
5. Then she stripped off the large sapphire solitaire which Charles had given her as an engagement ring.
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Meanings and Examples of SAPPHIRE
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sapphire
n. a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
n. a light shade of blue
Classic Sentence:
1 Then she stripped off the large sapphire solitaire which Charles had given her as an engagement ring.
2 Do look at this exquisite white sapphire.
3 Lily stood staring vacantly at the white sapphire on its velvet bed.
4 D'Artagnan remembered having seen this ring on the finger of Milady; it was a magnificent sapphire, encircled with brilliants.
5 While thus speaking Athos regarded with attention the sapphire set with diamonds which had taken, on d'Artagnan's finger, the place of the queen's ring, carefully kept in a casket.
6 Aramis returned home, and Athos and d'Artagnan busied themselves about pledging the sapphire.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT
Context Highlight In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT
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 Great big fat ones with steel and sapphire on their wings; and big moths, in the night, with skull and cross-bones on their backs.
9 The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires.
10 The ducal hat of Charles the Rash, the last Duke of Burgundy of his race, was hung with pear-shaped pearls and studded with sapphires.
11 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.
12 I did not think two sapphires of such a fine water existed.
Example Sentence:
1 The sapphire engagement ring that now adorns the hand of the Duchess of Cambridge, wasn't custom-made; she selected the diamond-encrusted ring from a jewelry collection catalog.