EMERALD in a Sentence

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Hanging lights made emerald caverns in the depths of foliage, and whitened the spray of a fountain falling among lilies.

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 Meanings and Examples of EMERALD
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emerald
 a.  of precious stone of a rich green color; of a rich green color
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  At every step that Edmond took he disturbed the lizards glittering with the hues of the emerald; afar off he saw the wild goats bounding from crag to crag.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
2  There were four or five more in the emerald, which would contain about a dozen.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
3  The casket passed around the table, but it was more to examine the admirable emerald than to see the pills that it passed from hand to hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
4  However, the sight of the emerald made them naturally incline to the former belief.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
5  Then he drew from his waistcoat-pocket the little emerald box, raised the golden lid, and took from it a pastille about the size of a pea, which he placed in her hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 101. Locusta.
6  The green plaid taffeta, frothing with flounces and each flounce edged in green velvet ribbon, was most becoming, in fact her favorite dress, for it darkened her eyes to emerald.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  She looked attractively saucy and the green of the lining made her eyes dark emerald and sparkling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  Her jaw line tightened to squareness and her eyes went emerald.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  Hanging lights made emerald caverns in the depths of foliage, and whitened the spray of a fountain falling among lilies.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
10  Before him lay a new pen, a new bottle of ink and a new emerald exercise.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
11  Her long slender bare legs were delicate as a crane's and pure save where an emerald trail of seaweed had fashioned itself as a sign upon the flesh.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  He had rubies and emeralds and diamonds stuck all over him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  He ascended into grottos paved with emeralds, with panels of rubies, and the roof glowing with diamond stalactites.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
14  The crowd moved to and fro in the rooms like an ebb and flow of turquoises, rubies, emeralds, opals, and diamonds.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 96. The Contract.
15  This box contained an unctuous substance partly solid, of which it was impossible to discover the color, owing to the reflection of the polished gold, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, which ornamented the box.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October.
Example Sentence:
1  That emerald curtain doesn't match the brown floor.