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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Bright or sparkling as a jewel.

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Examples

  • Sifting these out usually requires deep readings and re-readings, putting batches of poems in the gold pan of your mind until the motifs rise up and glimmer jewel-like on the surface.

    Review of The Best of It by Kay Ryan 2010

  • He solved the problem by painting the walls a soft nougat brown, forming the perfect background for the jewel-like colors of the paintings and by creating an intimate space to showcase the smaller "cabinet paintings."

    Guggenheim Bilbao Shows Dutch Masterpieces Mariana Schroeder 2010

  • Overall the musical treatment was more suggestive than definitive, and its clear instrumental writing, including a number of jewel-like dissonances, registered well in the otherwise slightly tubby acoustics of the parish sanctuary.

    Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010

  • Imagine them on the winter shelf in glass jars, jewel-like.

    Groundwork: Beans, cute and dried Adrian Higgins 2010

  • Overall the musical treatment was more suggestive than definitive, and its clear instrumental writing, including a number of jewel-like dissonances, registered well in the otherwise slightly tubby acoustics of the parish sanctuary.

    Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010

  • Overall the musical treatment was more suggestive than definitive, and its clear instrumental writing, including a number of jewel-like dissonances, registered well in the otherwise slightly tubby acoustics of the parish sanctuary.

    Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010

  • Across from Beg's Sufi, your eye catches a page of jewel-like decoration along with two engaging nature studies by Mansur, whom Emperor Jahangir named Nadir al-Asr, or Wonder of the Age.

    Anonymous No More Lee Lawrence 2011

  • But it's well worth making the effort to walk to, if only to check out its famous slit-like arch and some remarkable natural stone sculptures, including the Diamond Horse – an equine-shaped formation through which sunlight shines with a jewel-like glint.

    Secret beaches of the south-west: Nanjizal, Cornwall 2011

  • Overall the musical treatment was more suggestive than definitive, and its clear instrumental writing, including a number of jewel-like dissonances, registered well in the otherwise slightly tubby acoustics of the parish sanctuary.

    Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010

  • Overall the musical treatment was more suggestive than definitive, and its clear instrumental writing, including a number of jewel-like dissonances, registered well in the otherwise slightly tubby acoustics of the parish sanctuary.

    Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010

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