diamond

Definition:
1. A clear precious stone of pure carbon , the hardest substance known. Diamonds are used in jewellery and also in industry, especially for cutting glass.
2. A shape with four straight sides of equal length and with angles that are not right angles.

Use 'diamond' in a sentence:

• 1. That tradition is said to have started when an Austrian man gave a a diamond ring tothe woman he wanted to marry.
• 2. Desmond did not believe the diamond was real.
• 3. Has somebody helped himself to some film star's diamonds?
• 4. That original Kindle, code-named "Fiona" after a character in Neal Stephenson's futuristic novel The Diamond Age, was finally ready to go in the fall of 2007.
• 5. Only another diamond can make a slight cut in a diamond.
• 6. A diamond glittered on her ring finger.
• 7. All his fingers glittered with diamond rings; and then all were pure gems.
• 8. She wore several diamond rings.
• 9. The windows were small, glazed with little diamond-shaped panes, and they opened outward, on hinges, like doors.
• 10. They were caught smuggling diamonds into the country.
• 11. Diamond may be strong in itself, but it does not bond well with other materials.
• 12. It was a large diamond, but it had a flaw.
• 13. No, it shall be of gold and silver with diamond buttons.
• 14. The cut of a diamond depends on the skill of its craftsman.
• 15. Friendship is gold. Friendship is diamond.
• 16. She was wearing her diamonds.
• 17. The man usually gives the woman a diamond engagement ring.
• 18. Such phenomena as a brilliant diamond or a nesting bird are relegated to the role of data, serving as the means for formulating or testing a new theory.
• 19. That tradition is said to have started when an Austrian man gave a diamond ring to the woman he wanted to marry.
• 20. Some people like to dress up in minks and diamonds.
• 21. You must play a diamond if you have one.
• 22. Sometimes, however, the crystal form of the silicate inclusions is observed to resemble more closely the internal structure of diamond than that of other silicate minerals.
• 23. Nicole loves wearing her diamonds, even with jeans and a white T-shirt.
• 24. The diamond shone with every hue under the sun.
• 25. A new material developed recently has a tensile strength higher than diamond, yet it's much more flexible.
• 26. The lights shone like diamonds.
• 27. He formed his hands into the shape of a diamond.
• 28. What is diamond after all?
• 29. His wife came in, dripping with diamonds.
• 30. She told the artist, "Paint me with diamond earrings, a diamond necklace, emerald bracelets, and a ruby pendant."
• 31. The diamond shines brightly in the sun.
• 32. It was a beautiful diamond ring.
• 33. The plane was traveling from Yakutsk Airport in a major diamond producing region to the city Krasnoyarsk in Siberia.
• 34. John Diamond is stumped by an unexpected question.
• 35. The suits are called hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades.
• 36. The diamond ring is more expensive than the silver ring and the gold ring.
• 37. He drew the seven of diamonds.
• 38. Ash covered the marble diamond-patterned floor and floated in large pools of greywater from the fire hoses.
• 39. Another discovered a valuable diamond brooch covered in tar in a bathroom stall.
• 40. He stared at the diamonds with greedy eyes.
• 41. People who adore the thrill of the chase know that prizes, like diamonds, are worth striving for.
• 42. There is a reward for information leading to the recovery of the missing diamonds.
• 43. At dusk, the sunshine reflects on Hongze Lake, making it shine like a diamond.
• 44. My father has just come into a fortune in diamonds.
• 45. The crown was set with precious jewels ─ diamonds, rubies and emeralds.
• 46. His eyes lingered on the diamond ring on her finger.
• 47. Diamonds are the hardest known mineral.
• 48. The diamond is mounted in gold.
• 49. Diamond is the crystalline form of the element carbon.
• 50. Diamonds have extreme resistance to abrasion.
• 51. The diamonds sparkled in the light.
• 52. Now General Electric have gone one better than nature and made a diamond purer than the best quality natural diamonds.
• 53. They were dazed by window displays dripping with diamonds and furs.
• 54. Usually, it is possible to conclude that the inclusions are older than their diamond hosts, but with little indication of the time interval involved.
• 55. In industry, diamond can form a tough, non-corrosive coating for tools.
• 56. The diamond towns are gradually being reclaimed by the desert.