Example Sentences

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Germanium and silicon, both group IV elements with diamond-like crystal structures, occupy a unique position between metals and insulators.

From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2025

He was friends with Sam Kinison, a comic whose entire act was based in rage, and there were times when Kinison alarmed Richards with the diamond-like purity of his anger.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2024

The scales had a distinctive diamond-like pattern only found on fish that are closely related to tetrapods.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022

James Flude, spotted the silver-coloured metal ring with a diamond-like stone, on the northbound platform at Vauxhall on Saturday night.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2021

It wears a coat of ice and snow, its diamond-like sand swirling inside like an impending storm.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton