signet

Example Sentences

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Are you wearing a martini glass signet ring?

From Salon • May 1, 2025

The colorful intaglios — gems with incised carvings — likely fell out of signet rings worn by wealthy third-century bathers, and ended up trapped in the stone drains.

From New York Times • May 1, 2023

Archives show that those who lived in Brown Square included physician Joseph McKenzie; advocate John McLaurin; lord justice clerk Thomas Miller; Lady Agnew; and a writer to the signet, Isaac Grant.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2022

He proudly wore the family crest on a signet ring, but he was also mindful that his father had been accused of collaboration with the Nazis and his mother was “a former American exotic dancer.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2022

“How little faith you have in me,” said the Prince of Demons lazily, twirling the signet ring.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny