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How to use jewel in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Jewel means a precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone. Example: “Galveston was the jewel of Texas prior to the hurricane.”

Examples of jewel by meaning

nounAnything precious or valuable.

  • Galveston was the jewel of Texas prior to the hurricane.

nounThe clitoris.

  • The area between her eyebrows wrinkled with the increasing circular motions her two fingers made on her jewel.2008, Another Time, Another Place: Five Novellas

nounA jewel box (optical disc container).

  • As a collector, I prefer jewels to digipaks.

More sentences with jewel

  • The whole crowd cringed as he got kicked in his crown jewels.From the entry crown jewels
  • The whole crowd cringed as he got hit right in the family jewels.From the entry family jewels
  • Cloisonne is sometimes seen as a cheaper alternative to jewelled encrustation or filigree.From the entry cloisonne
  • Amid the confusion, the theft of the baron's jewels went unremarked.From the entry unremarked
  • The pachyodont arrangement is characteristic of the Chamidae, the jewel boxes.From the entry pachyodont
  • The dearer the jewel, the greater the love expressed.From the entry dear
  • He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels.From the entry array
  • The jewels were locked away in the safe.From the entry away
  • I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.From the entry value
  • Her eyes outsparkled the jewels she wore.From the entry outsparkle
  • The crown jewels in the United Kingdom are heavily guarded and anyone trying to steal them will certainly have a hard time.From the entry crown jewels
  • The duchess was dripping with jewels.From the entry drip
  • Jewels are valued by appraisers, sealed and sent to the treasury.2026 July 13, “How big temples guard their donations”, in India Today, volume 51, number 27, page 30. From the entry hundi
  • Seashells, round pebbles, driftwood—these natural materials are more precious to me than expensive jewels.2021, Young-Ran Lee, Create Dream Catchers, page 41. From the entry mermaids' tears
  • Schizopodidae, called "false jewel beetles", are a small group of beetles endemic to the western North America.2019, Dong Ren, Chungkun Shih, Taiping Gao, Yongjie Wang, Yunzhi Yao, editors, Rhythms of Insect Evolution, Wiley, page 377. From the entry false jewel beetle
  • “So he plies you with jewels and pours honey in your ear, and now you feel bad?”2016, Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury, Bloomsbury, page 335. From the entry pour honey in one's ear
  • It was as white as the marble face of the jeweled Madonna.2013, Philippa Carr, The Miracle at St. Bruno's. From the entry whoresome
  • They saw his you-know-whats: his family jewels, his nuggets, his love spuds.2012, Susin Nielsen, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen, Tundra Books, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry love spuds
  • A wishfulfilling jewel is something very serious in the Tibetan culture.2011, Lojong Mind Training in Eight Verses. From the entry wishfulfilling
  • Jewel scarab beetles range in color from metallic gold to shiny green.2011, National Geographic, True Or False Animal Cards, National Geographic Books, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry jewel scarab
  • All that had interested the boss last night had been the jeweled pendants.2009, Shannon McKenna, Tasting Fear, page 32. From the entry henfest
  • Anyway, at least I had created the pinchbeck crown in which Dai could place his jewel.2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 183. From the entry pinchbeck
  • Shah Jahan's aesthetics transformed the heron's feather into the extravagantly jewelled kalgi.2001, Usha Ramamrutham Bala Krishnan, Meera Sushil Kumar, Bharath Ramamrutham, Indian Jewellery: Dance of the Peacock, page 219. From the entry kalgi
  • They also possessed the wishfulfilling jewel and the wishfulfilling cow and great wealth.1994, Chö-yang - Issue 6, page 121. From the entry wishfulfilling
  • He said they were to be the jewels of his old age.1992, Karen Kijewski, Kat's Cradle, page 76. From the entry ruby
  • Murray, if I wasn't so crazy about you I'd give you a kick right in the jewels.1991, Michael J Katz, The Big Freeze. From the entry jewels
  • Likely as not, it is simply an animation of the familiar euphemism, "the family jewels."1971 July 5, R. Z. Sheppard, “Three's a Crowd”, in Time. From the entry family jewels
  • Besides jeweled ornaments on colorful hand-knits, perfect outfits are being designed to match any chosen sweater.1954 November 11, “Modern Living: What’s New in Sweaters”, in Jet, volume VII, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: Johnson Publishing Co., Inc., page…. From the entry hand-knit
  • Other sewless buttons are decorative pin-on ones — metal or jeweled.1951, The Ladies' Home Journal, volume 68. From the entry sewless
  • It was big—and Babbitt respected bigness in anything; in mountains, jewels, muscles, wealth, or words.1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter III, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC. From the entry bigness
  • Miss Gladys Hatch, as Theda Bara, was very vampiry with her purple robes and onyx jewels.1916 October 21, “‘Fame’ to a Packed House. The Minute Circle’s Benefit at the Auditorium a Hit. Lucien Denni Adds Another Success to His…. From the entry vampiry
  • They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water.1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl. From the entry sordid
  • This is despite the fact that the nicotine pouch Zyn is a jewel in the crown of a multibillion-dollar tobacco company.2024 January 12, Emily Dreyfuss, “Our Kids Are Living in a Different Digital World”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry Zyn
  • It has stood alongside Chelsea as one of the jewels in the crown of Russian investments in “Londongrad”.2022 March 13, Ben Quinn, “Russian-owned auction house faces boycott by art world figures”, in The Guardian. From the entry jewel in the crown
  • But now a handful of houses are keen to master all stages of a stone’s journey from rough to final jewel.2017 October 29, Ming Liu, “Why high-end jewelers are investing in rough diamonds”, in CNN. From the entry uncut
  • The sun above gleams like a shining jewel, but even its brightness is nothing compared to the resplendence of the Empire.2016, Kazerad, Crowdfunding Receipt Comic, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), October 31 2016. From the entry resplendence
  • Pierogis: perhaps one of the crown jewels of all dumplings, somewhere between ravioli and gyoza, just below xiaolongbaos and empanadas.2016 December 2–4, Rachel Raczka, “Match point”, in Metro Boston, Boston, Mass., →OCLC, page 11, column 3. From the entry xiaolongbao

Meaning of jewel

  1. noun A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.
  2. noun A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery.
  3. noun Anything precious or valuable.

Full definition of jewel

Questions about jewel in a sentence

How do you use jewel in a sentence?
Jewel is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Galveston was the jewel of Texas prior to the hurricane.”
What is a short sentence with jewel?
“The duchess was dripping with jewels.”
What does jewel mean?
Jewel means a precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jewel (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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