Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: gems
IPA transcription: [dʒ'ɛmz]
Usage examples
  • set in gems and enamel in her hair?
  • "Perhaps," answered Tom, as he accepted the gems which the expert held out to him.
  • Let us take the gems and gold from the chests and flee, using the secret passageway."
  • There were cabinets full of baubles and gems, and swords which must have been wielded by giant's hand.
  • The first line is certainly a masterpiece, and, indeed, the whole volume is full of gems of this kind.
  • They had carried irrigation, agriculture, and the cutting of gems to a point equal to that of the Old World.
  • He filled his hands with the bright gems, and let them run from one hand to the other, like streams of liquid light.
  • "There are splendid opportunities for acquiring the gems these Newport ladies wear by one who may be stationed in the dressing-room.
  • The sunflowers and hollyhocks no longer cowered under the tyranny of the rain, but bowed beneath the weight of the gems that adorned them.
  • I did not want to take his money, but the fact that such a sorry looking specimen of manhood as he had been when I aided him, was an expert handler of gems interested me.