How to Use agate in a Sentence
agate
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In the Super Bowl, the wristband had 194 plays in tiny agate type.
—Peter King, SI.com, 11 Feb. 2018
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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
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And white agate is meant to calm and embolden you to trust.
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2022
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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
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Think baroque seed pearls, strung with bits of glass, and polished agate and bulbs of orange turquoise.
—Monica Kim, Vogue, 13 July 2018
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This gorgeous set of blue-dyed agate bookends are a great gift for any book-lover.
—Liv Birdsall, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2020
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Nothing outside of race results buried in small type on the agate page.
—Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022
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Apart from agate hunters and dinosaur buffs, few outsiders came through.
—Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
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Every agate there is made, full of time and energy, heat and cold.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 16 Dec. 2022
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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
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Real horsehair fills out the tail; leather forms the saddle and stirrups; agate marbles dot the eyes.
—Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
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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
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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
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But cheese on a patchwork agate platter is even better.
—ELLE, 19 July 2022
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Marble, stone and hardwood floors are found throughout, and the blue-agate bar is a true showstopper.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 13 June 2022
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Bob Barbrow, chief of the agate desk in Sports, put it a little differently.
—USA Today, 14 Sep. 2022
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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
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This is an unpolished agate from the shores of Lake Superior, my home.
—Michael McKnight, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2017
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Made with a glossy blue agate, every bracelet is unique in color intensity, size and shape.
—Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 26 Aug. 2022
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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
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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
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In truth, the glistening agate looks almost too real (and too beautiful) to eat.
—Rachel Waldman, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Some designers go further, opting to showcase the agate by backlighting it with LED lights.
—Robyn A. Friedman, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2018
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