NECKLACE in a Sentence

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35 example sentences for NECKLACE, such as:

1. I offer nothing but an old necklace.
2. Her ruby necklace brightened her face.
3. She fashioned a necklace from paper clips.
4. A heavy gold necklace hung around her neck.
5. He gave me a necklace as an anniversary gift.

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 Meanings and Examples of NECKLACE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
necklace
 n.  jewelry consisting of a cord or chain, often bearing gems, worn about the neck
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  A diamond necklace, with pendants of inestimable value, were by this means also made more conspicuous.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  I offer nothing but an old necklace.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  She looked and looked, longing to know which might be least valuable; and was determined in her choice at last, by fancying there was one necklace more frequently placed before her eyes than the rest.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  Miss Crawford smiled her perfect approbation; and hastened to complete the gift by putting the necklace round her, and making her see how well it looked.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  "You must think of somebody else too, when you wear that necklace," replied Miss Crawford.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  He gave it to me, and with the necklace I make over to you all the duty of remembering the original giver.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  Fanny dared not make any farther opposition; and with renewed but less happy thanks accepted the necklace again, for there was an expression in Miss Crawford's eyes which she could not be satisfied with.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  It was about the necklace, which she was now most earnestly longing to return, and hoped to obtain his approbation of her doing.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  Wear the necklace, as you are engaged to do, to-morrow evening, and let the chain, which was not ordered with any reference to the ball, be kept for commoner occasions.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  The necklace really looked very well; and Fanny left her room at last, comfortably satisfied with herself and all about her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  And had I had an idea of it, nothing should have induced me to accept the necklace.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  Suellen, behind her mother's hack, wrinkled her nose triumphantly at Scarlett, who had been planning to beg the necklace for herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  Today, in reeking early August, she wore a man's cap, a skinny fur like a dead cat, a necklace of imitation pearls, a scabrous satin blouse, and a thick cloth skirt hiked up in front.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  Schminke's bead necklace and Whittier's error in putting on the striped pants, day like this.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  Mrs. Hussey wore a polished necklace of codfish vertebra; and Hosea Hussey had his account books bound in superior old shark-skin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
Example Sentence:
1  He gave me a necklace as an anniversary gift.
2  He gave me a necklace as a token of his affection.
3  Her ruby necklace brightened her face.
4  She wore a rhinestone necklace with an excessively garish gold lame dress.
5  This is daisy flower jewelry set that includes necklace and silver earrings.
6  Anyone returning the necklace will be handsomely rewarded.
7  Against her black dress, her diamond necklace stood out clearly.
8  A heavy gold necklace hung around her neck.
9  She was wearing a large gold necklace set with jewels.
10  She fashioned a necklace from paper clips.