[
US
/ˈsæfaɪɝ/
]
[ UK /sˈæfaɪə/ ]
[ UK /sˈæfaɪə/ ]
NOUN
- a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone
- a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
- a light shade of blue
ADJECTIVE
-
of something having the color of a blue sapphire
sapphire eyes
How To Use sapphire In A Sentence
- She took a deep breath and fiddled with the sapphire necklace hanging down below her collar bone.
- Cascades of earls, rubies, sapphires, diamonds and tortoiseshell hatpins, 76 items in all, poured out.
- Sapphire, who taught teenagers in Harlem from the early '80s to the early' 90s, formed this book upon what she saw around her. Archive 2009-11-01
- A whirling flash of sapphire suddenly rotated --- in a delirious foxtrot --- with Doc's own dizzy nimbus of gilded amber. BEHINDLINGS
- Brown pelicans dive into glistening sapphire waves to grab tiny silvery fish that jump from the water then fall back with a soft plop.
- Strengthening and hand-carved jade bead necklace of shells grossularite, platnium set diamond and Pink Sapphire is very beautiful. VInvesting.com
- Asgard had seen the accusing look in Terian's face and could not meet the familiar sapphire blue eyes that suddenly smoldered with hatred.
- The museum has a Saudi sculpture of a falcon on a perch, of inestimable value and stunning vulgarity, made from gold, quartz, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and 1,210 diamonds.
- It discovered that the colors of several gem minerals - including pearl, sapphire, quartz, kunzite, and topaz - can be changed by the USPS irradiation method.
- Her sapphire ring had been in such a box, her twenty-first birthday ring. The Glasgow Girls