Example sentences for: diamond

How can you use “diamond” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The stone-flagged veranda was roughly the size of a baseball diamond, and it seemed to overlook the whole of Los Angeles, which was a mosaic of orange and white lights.

  • A dazzling array of hereditary jewels might occasionally adorn Queen Elizabeth, but other rich women never appear in diamond tiaras.

  • -- Greg Diamond

  • It was created to meet an urgent need for a common language between those using the European-derived Afrikaans, English, German, or Portuguese on the one hand and, on the other, the speakers of the numerous African tongues from the Angoni in Malawi to the Zulus in Natal, all of whom worked together in the diamond diggings, gold mines, and farms of the whole of southern Africa, including Mozambique and what are now Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.

  • A diamond bracelet mocks all the sables that wither and rot, the cars that rust, the champagne gone flat, and the claret turned vinegar, even the crumbling great houses and the faded great paintings--painstaking creations now fatally ripped, soaked, or burned.


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