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Example sentences for: jewel

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As Constantinople, jewel of the Byzantine Empire, it was for more than 1,000 years the most important city in Christendom.
The NYT off-leads with Clinton's order to stop the use of live-fire ammunition in military-training exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, dubbed the "crown jewel of live-fire, combined-arms training," by the U.S. chief of naval operations in the WP , which stuffs the story.
Its refined façade of delicate inlaid colored marble and intricately carved friezes has won it the name of “golden jewel box” (scrigno d’oro), its local designer Pietro Lombardo more sculptor than architect.
Little St-Julien-le-Pauvre, a jewel of early Gothic architecture dating from between 1165 and 1220, hosts recitals of chamber and religious music.
Forced by a cruel publishing house to give up her last, cherished family jewel at a fire-sale price.