Used in a Sentence

jewel

How to use jewel in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for jewel.

Editorial note

He won't license away a crown jewel for a few short-term dollars.

Examples14
Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of jewel gathered in one view.

noun

a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry

noun

a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry

verb

adorn or decorate with precious stones; "jeweled dresses"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for jewel.

noun

a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry

noun

a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry

verb

adorn or decorate with precious stones; "jeweled dresses"

Example sentences

1

He won't license away a crown jewel for a few short-term dollars.

2

I hate to say it, but maybe we should just leave SF to be sort of a "jewel." Let the tech companies and employees who can afford to live there remain.

3

It's really the crown jewel in Microsoft's portfolio. It just works.

4

Com/jewel/clearskies\n\nBuild: sudo docker build -t clearskies . \n\nRun: sudo docker run -i -t clearskies /bin/bash\n\nThen: mkdir /testdir\n echo 'testing' > afile\n cd /clearskies\n .

5

You've forgotten the crown jewel: the video for Vista SP1, "Rockin' Our Sales." [1] I realize it was meant for internal use only, but good lord, somebody put a lot of work into this thing.

6

This little jewel allows you to customize the order of your Apple menu and it adds a folder to the Apple menu containing a directory of the items used recently. HAM shows some serious love of System 7 users.

7

No. This is like if I witnessed the police commissioner bludgeoning someone to death with a diamond-encrusted poker, took the bloodied murder weapon as evidence to show to media, and was then accused of being a jewel thief who should face his crime.

8

Again, I disagree; just like hiring someone, how do you sort through the cruft to find the jewel in X number of applications? I'm not talking about seeking perfection, just someone whose quirks - and we all have them - you can tolerate enough to enjoy a successful relationship.

9

He's calling up the movie image of a giant diamond on a pedestal, one that jewel thieves go to great trouble to steal because it's so incredibly valuable. Well, there he has $5 million in "stolen" loot, in a compact package with a comparable weight to value ratio as giant diamonds.

10

The only way to fix the crazy housing market of NYC is to make more places like NYC. As long as NYC remains a completely unique singular jewel of successful urban living while the rest of the country embraces suburban sprawl and terrible transit, NYC will remain almost comedically expensive.

11

If you want to physically distribute music, labels which have been in the business for a long time like Warner Bro's have established supply chains that can get music manufactured and distributed faster than an independent artist manually burning CD's, printing, putting them in jewel cases and mailing them out ever could. What do people expect?

12

As another prominent free project with a much better track record for security and stability, consider OpenSSH, the crown jewel of the OpenBSD crowd, a free software distribution itself popularly renowned for its security. Theo's criticism here of OpenSSL carries a lot of weight.

13

At this point, employers quite rationally want someone who can put together a combination of basic algorithms in 5 minutes over someone who takes a week to come up with an a elegant jewel of an algorithm that no one else at the company can understand. To put it another way, just like the slow food movement hasn't really made a dent in fast food culture, I don't expect a slow code movement to make much of a dent in the "ship yesterday" culture of modern software development.

Quote examples

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Do not compare it with an enormous jewel. Do not compare it with a dragon's bright pearl. Old sages valued this one day more than their own living bodies. Reflect on this quietly. A dragon's pearl may be found. An enormous jewel may be acquired.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use jewel in a sentence?

He won't license away a crown jewel for a few short-term dollars.

What does jewel mean?

a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry

What part of speech is jewel?

jewel is commonly used as noun, verb.