SAPPHIRE in a Sentence

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For SAPPHIRE, below is one of 13 sentences:
Great big fat ones with steel and sapphire on their wings; and big moths, in the night, with skull and cross-bones on their backs.

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 Meanings and Examples of SAPPHIRE
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sapphire
 n.  a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone
Classic Sentence:
1  Then she stripped off the large sapphire solitaire which Charles had given her as an engagement ring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  Do look at this exquisite white sapphire.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
3  Lily stood staring vacantly at the white sapphire on its velvet bed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
4  D'Artagnan remembered having seen this ring on the finger of Milady; it was a magnificent sapphire, encircled with brilliants.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID
5  While thus speaking Athos regarded with attention the sapphire set with diamonds which had taken, on d'Artagnan's finger, the place of the queen's ring, carefully kept in a casket.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID
6  Aramis returned home, and Athos and d'Artagnan busied themselves about pledging the sapphire.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT
7  Do no such thing, I beg of you; he would only send you another, formed of a magnificent sapphire, or hollowed out of a gigantic ruby.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable.
8  Great big fat ones with steel and sapphire on their wings; and big moths, in the night, with skull and cross-bones on their backs.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  The ducal hat of Charles the Rash, the last Duke of Burgundy of his race, was hung with pear-shaped pearls and studded with sapphires.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
11  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.
12  I did not think two sapphires of such a fine water existed.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID
Example Sentence:
1  The sapphire engagement ring that now adorns the hand of the Duchess of Cambridge, wasn't custom-made; she selected the diamond-encrusted ring from a jewelry collection catalog.