Examples of agate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Among them was an agate, diamond and sapphire zebra brooch that sold for $554,400, totally smashing its $70,000 high estimate. — Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 9 June 2022 The primary bathroom features a steam shower, rain shower and stunning natural agate gemstone countertops and a bench. — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 2022 But right then, in that moment, the 40-something poet, journalist and simmering social radical was trapped in a luxury car with the corporate squares, a beetle in cooling agate. — Dwain Hebda, Arkansas Online, 5 June 2022 Nothing outside of race results buried in small type on the agate page. — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022 Each bag is made using centuries-old techniques unique to each tanner‚ including polishing the leather with an agate stone as a glazing process. — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Apr. 2022 The agate’s translucence bestows celestiality on both images. — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022 Nation & World Extra is now appearing with every morning's e-edition, and Sports Extra, the companion section with late sports scores and agate, will launch this Saturday (March 5). — Mary Irby-jones, The Courier-Journal, 4 Mar. 2022 The agate-like finish of Apt2B’s two-tone ceramic table lamp drew Ms. Gunawan’s discerning eye. — Alison Duncan, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022 See More

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History and Etymology for agate

Middle English achates, accate, agaten, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French achate, agathe, borrowed from Latin achātēs, borrowed from Greek achā́tēs, of uncertain origin

Note: According to Theophrastus and Pliny, the stone was named after a river in Sicily. Modern etymologists seem disinclined to believe this and suggest that the river was named after the stone. The voiced stop in the medieval French forms, which has become the dominant form in Modern French and English, begins to appear in Medieval Latin, and may be owed to Medieval Latin agapis, a word of obscure origin used for both the agate and lapis lazuli; it has been suggested that agapis is itself a distortion of achates (crossed with Latin lapis "stone"?), though this is far from clear.

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