jade
Example Sentences
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Zhao, a woman sporting an intricately carved gold medallion on a necklace of jade beads and shimmering bangles on her wrist, brought her late grandfather's ring to the recycling machine.
From Barron's
It was beautiful, though, extraordinarily so; the trees were a thousand shades of brown and jade and silver-gray.
From Literature
But even jaded readers will be startled by the scope of the self-organizing tyranny besetting the book world.
What the author gets at in every example, from Kokopelli petroglyphs to fragile jade flutes and the lush sets and experimental sounds of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, is a common longing.
No matter how much this city jades you, that hope of getting “discovered” is stubborn.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
