beads

Example Sentences

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Tiny flowers made from minuscule pearl beads dot her deep-red nails.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

A devout Catholic, it was there that she gave my dad her most precious gift: her own mom’s rosary beads.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

Bright teardrop earrings hang from metal tins filled with Japanese cooling beads.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Mitochondrial pearling is a temporary shape change in which mitochondria form a structure that looks like beads on a string.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

It must have been there for a long time, because the crystal glass of ice water beside the silver dome was speckled with thick beads of condensation.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix