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jewel

[joo-uhl] / ˈdʒu əl /




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But officials confirmed no casualties or serious damage, notably to the southern city's Alhambra palace, a UNESCO-listed jewel of medieval Islamic architecture and the seat of Spain's last Muslim kingdom.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

People familiar with the matter said that LIV is on the verge of canceling its team championship, the final event on the schedule and a tournament once touted as LIV’s crown jewel.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

"Chalk streams should be the jewel in the crown of our waterways; a unique, internationally rare habitat we are lucky to have on our doorstep, and we should be proud of," she added.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

“Remake” is McElwee’s first film in 15 years, appearing like a jewel out of a mountain of life’s rubble.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

The old Master murmured one word, “Tolk,” and there lay the pebble, no jewel but a rough grey bit of rock.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

If Mark Walter is selling one of the crown jewels of Los Angeles sports, is he about to sell the other?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

That Yale is willing to risk these jewels in her crown speaks volumes about the terrible power of the proposed OMB regulation.

From Slate Jul. 30, 2026

The Apollo Gallery of Paris's Louvre Museum, where French crown jewels worth 88 million euros were stolen in 2025 in a brazen heist, will reopen to the public on Wednesday.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

Wimbledon is always a very special tournament and one of the crown jewels of the British summer of sport.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Vendors from all over the city had come offering pottery, and jewels, and food from their shops.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Why would you want to eat jeweled rice?

From Slate Aug. 15, 2026

A stunning jeweled dagger hilt and scabbard from Jahangir’s reign incorporate more than 2,000 diamonds, rubies and emeralds set in an intricate pattern in gold.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

According to another legend, Brigid gave her father’s jeweled sword to a needy man for him to barter for food.

From Seattle Times Jan. 26, 2024

Iranian-style jewelry studded with jade and other precious stones were popular during the Ottoman period, and Joyce may have applied his newfound skills to crafting rings, earrings, necklaces, and intricate jeweled turban aigrettes.

From National Geographic Jan. 11, 2024

The king pressed his jeweled forefinger to his fleshy lips, contemplating his next move.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

And at night, when the ticky-tacky disappears and the jeweling lights go on, the happy, hoppy daydream becomes a garden of visual delight.

From Time Magazine Archive

She will miss this glorious light warming the inside of her skin and jeweling the trees, the grass, the lily pond beyond the hedge.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

For a half hour the torrents fell--then the sun burst forth, jeweling the forest with a million scintillant gems; but today the ape-man, usually alert to the changing wonders of the jungle, saw them not.

From Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

For by their necessity the gods were compelled to invent the arts of metal-working, weaving, carpentry, jeweling and many other useful appliances for the human race.

From Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by Ozawa

Evidently the blossoms had just been gathered, for the raindrops of the previous night still sparkled among their petals, jeweling with brilliancy their kaleidoscopic riot of color.

From The Wall Between by Sara Ware Bassett

"I wanted to see whether, when you strip away the usual Chanel signatures - the tweed, the jewelled buttons - you can still get to that essence," he told WWD.

From BBC Jan. 29, 2026

In a vast, dimly lit main hall spanning four levels, visitors gazed at chariots, household items, jewelled ornaments and, at the centre, Tutankhamun's iconic golden mask.

From Barron's Nov. 4, 2025

When she swapped it much later for the jewelled Sword of Offering, the nation breathed a sigh of relief.

From BBC May 7, 2023

"We did have somewhat of a clash at one point," she said, "when I was doing chic punk and she used to say 'That's not punk, with those jewelled safety pins'."

From BBC Dec. 30, 2022

Eurydamas’s men came back with pendants, ear-drops in triple clusters of warm lights; and from the hoard of Lord Polyktor’s son, Peisandros, came a band for her white throat, jewelled adornment.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

From where he sat he could see the trembling lights of the village jewelling the rim of the bay like a circlet of stars.

From Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett

She paused a moment, looking up at the wooded hill-top, which the sun was jewelling in silver.

From Other Things Being Equal by Emma Wolf

Their powder is the best for the lapidary, and they are used for jewelling watches, and in the cutting of window- and plate-glass.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

Dew jewelling the grasses in the fields, the chatter of birds among the trees, a sparkling freshness in the air, and before me the road, running white into the gold of the rising sun.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

The ice glistened on the naked trees, encasing and jewelling them.

From Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton




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