How to Use agate in a Sentence

agate

noun

• Apart from agate hunters and dinosaur buffs, few outsiders came through.
  — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Nothing outside of race results buried in small type on the agate page.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022
• Every agate there is made, full of time and energy, heat and cold.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 16 Dec. 2022
• Think baroque seed pearls, strung with bits of glass, and polished agate and bulbs of orange turquoise.
  — Monica Kim, Vogue, 13 July 2018
• 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
• The piece is crafted in 18-karat gold, lapis lazuli, blue and green agate and white mother-of-pearl.
  — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 20 July 2026
• 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
• 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
• Made with a glossy blue agate, every bracelet is unique in color intensity, size and shape.
  — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 26 Aug. 2022
• Real horsehair fills out the tail; leather forms the saddle and stirrups; agate marbles dot the eyes.
  — Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• Marble, stone and hardwood floors are found throughout, and the blue-agate bar is a true showstopper.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 13 June 2022
• One of the necklaces found inside a man’s tomb is made of amethyst and agate beads surrounding a hippo head amulet.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2024
• On the starboard side lies a bar embellished with amethyst and agate; on the port side is a hookah room with fold-down sea terraces.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2025
• 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
• In the Super Bowl, the wristband had 194 plays in tiny agate type.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 11 Feb. 2018
• It was generally made of a precious or semiprecious stone such as lapis lazuli, agate or chalcedony.
  — Serdar Yalçin, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
• In truth, the glistening agate looks almost too real (and too beautiful) to eat.
  — Rachel Waldman, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This Air sign is notorious for avoiding confrontation, so blue agate is a must-have.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
• This is an unpolished agate from the shores of Lake Superior, my home.
  — Michael McKnight, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Bob Barbrow, chief of the agate desk in Sports, put it a little differently.
  — USA Today, 14 Sep. 2022
• The white agate is also inspired by the classic art deco a part of the old Havana aesthetic.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024
• In the days of typesetting, the tiny agate type was always rife with errors, players with similar names might be confused.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2024
• Onyx is a variety of chalcedony, a microcrystalline form of quartz that also includes stones like agate.
  — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
• As for the symbolism behind the stones, rose quartz is said to attract love, while the blue lace agate invokes a calm, tranquil energy.
  — Cheryl Wagemann, Peoplemag, 2 July 2024
• Blue Agate Dial Blue agate is a fascinating choice for a watch dial.
  — Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024