agate

Gold and silver inlay work and green agate stones complete the garment.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

The doorknob-size piece, inlaid with carnelian, agate and lapis lazuli flowers reminiscent of the Taj, exemplifies how even the smallest functional item would be meticulously crafted and decorated in a consistent style in Mughal workshops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Adjacent to the entombed Griffin Warrior’s wrist was a carved and gold-tipped agate, almond-shaped and just 1.3 inches in length, here making its public debut outside Europe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

Among his tasks in Metro was putting together the weather page, assembling all that agate type that listed highs and lows across the country.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023

Kaori had never actually seen a snakeskin agate, after all, but she’d studied endless pages of gems online, and she knew which ones were used for what.

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Glossy agates and tiny-dice surprises interrupt the labyrinth’s blue, gray, white and orange river stone path.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

Experts from the University of Leeds and a specialist spectroscopy company were also involved, and they found she had carnelians and agates which she collected in Scarborough, where she worked as a governess.

From BBC ● May 21, 2022

Another tour de force is “Rock Shop,” which centers on a display of sliced agates and geodes in colors that verge on the artificial — each stone is a little painting edged in glitter.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2021

I won more agates and marbles than anyone in school, and gradually amassed hundreds of soldiers; finally leaving them to clutter up unreachable shelves.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017

“Because snakeskin agates are usually found in dry riverbeds or along beaches—places where there’s water.”

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly