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How to use garnet in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Garnet means a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives. Example: “GUIDE, in amethysts, beryls, chrysoprases, and garnets.”

Examples of garnet by meaning

nounA hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.

  • GUIDE, in amethysts, beryls, chrysoprases, and garnets.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson
  • How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, page 127

More sentences with garnet

  • The blocks include rare omphacite metagabbros and garnet–epidote blueschists in the Wanjung and Juisui (Tamayen) areas, respectively.2016, William Keyser et al., “High-pressure metamorphism in the Chinshuichi area, Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan”, in Tectonophysics, volume…. From the entry Wanjung
  • “Whatever are ye lookin' at, Neil?” his mother demanded, looking up from fastening her favorite garnet brooch.2010 December 17, Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Anchor Canada, →ISBN. From the entry thon
  • The rings were golden Claddaghs with a garnet in the center.2010, Angelina Elias, Renata: The Beginning, page 274. From the entry Claddagh
  • Kelyphite is a fine grained, fibrous and radially oriented mineral assembly surrounding partially retrogressed garnet.2009, M. Obata, K. Ozawa, D. Spengler, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #V44A-02. From the entry kelyphite
  • Eye colours just pop against burgundy and garnet.2024 April 26, Sali Hughes, “Burgundy is having a fashion moment – and it’s a flattering makeup shade, too”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry burgundy
  • “Cast off the topsail sheets, clew garnets, leechlines and buntlines!” The order came thinly through the roar of the wind.1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 8. From the entry buntline
  • Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl, and Steven!2013 Steven Universe (theme song). From the entry steven
  • Garnet explains in fine detail to Candice that, back in the day, it was possible to change your identification successfully but it was illegal.2013, Kirby Edwards, Carry Your Name - Drive Your Purpose, page 63. From the entry paper tripping
  • Thread the bead in the following pattern or create your own unique pattern: (Pinks) garnet, rose, garnet, fuchsia, garnet, rose, garnet; (Greens) vessonite, lime, olive, lime.2008, Sara Schwittek, Anita Lin, Perfect Match: Earring Designs For Every Occasion. From the entry vessonite
  • The primitive nondifferentiated matter of the Earth's upper mantle may appear in the form of four varieties of pyrolite (plagioclase, spinel, pyroxene, or garnet pyrolite) or ampholite.1984, Nonna Bakun-Czubarow, Jacek Leliwa-Kopystyński, “Hypothetical Phase Transformations in the Earth's Mantle”, in Jacek…. From the entry ampholite
  • The blossom emerges from a long, etched gold stem from which spring three leavelets or spathes rendered in demantoid garnets mounted à jour in gold frames.1980, Walters Art Gallery, Jewelry, Ancient to Modern, Viking Press, →ISBN, page 243. From the entry leavelet
  • Garnets are found not only in soapstone and the aforementioned talc-slates, but also indeed scattered singly in granite, further also sundered out, in the surface soil in and around Philadelphia.1976, Johann David Schöpf, Edmund Maute Spieker, Geology of eastern North America. From the entry sunder out

Meaning of garnet

  1. noun A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
  2. noun A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.
  3. adjective Of a dark red colour.

Full definition of garnet

Questions about garnet in a sentence

How do you use garnet in a sentence?
Garnet is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “GUIDE, in amethysts, beryls, chrysoprases, and garnets.”
What is a short sentence with garnet?
“Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl, and Steven!”
What does garnet mean?
Garnet means a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.

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