How to Use agate in a Sentence

agate

noun

• In the Super Bowl, the wristband had 194 plays in tiny agate type.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 11 Feb. 2018
• Hit the beach and hunt for clams, sea glass, and agate pieces at low tide, and splash around at high tide.
  — Kristi Valentini, Redbook, 13 July 2017
• And white agate is meant to calm and embolden you to trust.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2022
• Results could be found amid the box scores and standings, in the small type used in the agate pages of the sports section.
  — AZCentral.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Think baroque seed pearls, strung with bits of glass, and polished agate and bulbs of orange turquoise.
  — Monica Kim, Vogue, 13 July 2018
• This gorgeous set of blue-dyed agate bookends are a great gift for any book-lover.
  — Liv Birdsall, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2020
• Nothing outside of race results buried in small type on the agate page.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022
• Apart from agate hunters and dinosaur buffs, few outsiders came through.
  — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• Every agate there is made, full of time and energy, heat and cold.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 16 Dec. 2022
• There were piles of raw rocks on tarps, sold by the pound, and men with craggy hands standing behind crates of cheap agate slices.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• Real horsehair fills out the tail; leather forms the saddle and stirrups; agate marbles dot the eyes.
  — Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• The front doors have brass handles in the form of branches; the floors and many walls are dark green; and tables have brass bases with tops in green agate or pink quartz.
  — William Middleton, ELLE Decor, 2 Nov. 2020
• The digging action of the inshore waves turns up agates, sand dollars, shells and smoothed good-luck pocket rocks.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2019
• But cheese on a patchwork agate platter is even better.
  — ELLE, 19 July 2022
• Marble, stone and hardwood floors are found throughout, and the blue-agate bar is a true showstopper.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 13 June 2022
• Bob Barbrow, chief of the agate desk in Sports, put it a little differently.
  — USA Today, 14 Sep. 2022
• There is also a wall of semi-precious blue agate in the main entranceway and blue mosaics in the wellness area.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2023
• This is an unpolished agate from the shores of Lake Superior, my home.
  — Michael McKnight, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• Residue on one edge of this agate tool turned out to be bison blood, probably thanks to someone using the tool to scrape a fresh bison hide.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 10 July 2023
• Made with a glossy blue agate, every bracelet is unique in color intensity, size and shape.
  — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 26 Aug. 2022
• This sophisticated set comes with three knives, each with a slice of agate as its handle.
  — L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2023
• Until one August 1994 morning when Mainieri read the fine print of the local newspaper sports agate page.
  — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• In truth, the glistening agate looks almost too real (and too beautiful) to eat.
  — Rachel Waldman, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2018
• One of my biggest jewelry regrets is not buying a white agate and spinel ring designed by her 15 years ago.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 28 June 2019
• After the rock solidified, the water inside the egg percolated through the rock and shell to create the agate.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
• Three types of diamonds—white, yellow and brown—are common in the region, as are gems like quartz, agate, garnet, amethyst and jasper, among others.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024
• Some of the precious stones found here include garnet, jasper, quartz, amethyst and agate, as well as diamonds in three colors: yellow, brown and white.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• Lapidary is cutting and shaping semiprecious stones like agate, jasper, opal or turquoise for rings and settings, John Oechsler said.
  — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Nov. 2019
• The researchers also found a seal made from agate, adorned with a carving of a ship; three large vases made of copper; and ingots of bronze and tin — one of the largest caches of raw metal ever found in Crete.
  — Fox News, 12 Dec. 2019
• Hundreds of colorful stones, like turquoise, Montana agate, and labradorite, are scattered on one bench, and strips of old metal lie on another.
  — Leslie Hittmeier, Outside Online, 11 June 2018

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024