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

Unlike Manhattan clubs with the kinds of gemlike hangouts that the Gilded Age architect Stanford White turned into an art form, the Friendly Sons do not have a clubhouse of their own.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2019

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

A few minutes later, the good sun having dried its wings, it went darting and hurtling over the pool, a gemlike, opalescent shining thing, reflected gloriously in the polished mirror beneath.

From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir