Example sentences for: pearls

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

  • Plotting with or against their statesman, courting the populace, negotiating treaties, or ordering executions, those formidable rulers never failed to appear ostentatiously clad in vast padded and jewel-encrusted dresses, their torsos boxed in whalebone, their hair glued into smooth rolls upholding pearls and plumes.

  • The best pearls are large and highly lustrous.

  • Thus, we find cast pearls before swine under pearl, beggars cannot (or must not) be choosers under beggar , and, even more curiously, know the time of day under time . I doubt that cannot or must not appear in the second proverb as frequently as can't (I cannot recall ever having heard must not or even mustn't ); but the last expression is always preceded by not , and other representations are inaccurate.

  • Listen, anything out of Perot's mouth would sound like pearls of wisdom after Alan Keyes' attack on John McCain this afternoon for being soft on Nine Inch Nails.

  • She insisted on casual fakes and mixtures of vivid barbaric ornaments along with real pearls.


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