Example Sentences

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June Yun’s picture is clearly an aerial view of a city, but partly abstracted in gemlike tones of turquoise pigment and gold and silver leaf.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022

The title character of Hunt’s gemlike ninth novel is a 1930s “Radium Girl,” one of thousands of women who unwittingly used radioactive paint to make clock dials.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2021

She was the first Black woman to get a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, gaining fans for her mesmerizing canvases, patterned all over with gemlike bits of color.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

James is famous for her richly nuanced books starring Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh, but these are masterful, gemlike short stories.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2017

As the day grew old the ice on the trees melted and fell away in myriads of gemlike drops.

From Nature's Serial Story by Roe, Edward Payson