jade
Example Sentences
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Lex: He’s so positive and optimistic, and I miss that because I can be jaded working in this industry where you don’t always get credit for your work.
From Los Angeles Times
“And this is genuine jade from China, boys. Isn’t that a Wonder?”
From Literature
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
