How to Use lapidary in a Sentence

lapidary

adjective

• The market will feature crystals and gems, rough slabs and cabs and lapidary tools.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2021
• There will everything from crystals and gems, rough slabs and cabs to lapidary tools.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022
• The show features fossils crystals and gems, rough slabs and cabs along with lapidary tools.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
• There’s much to love and admire about this haunting movie, including its lapidary visuals.
  — Manohla Dargis, A. O. Scott and Stephen Holden, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2016
• His books, most written in the first person, are lapidary, intricate, Nabokovian.
  — Charles McGrath, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
• When identical copies of tools are required, his team uses lapidary equipment, or rock-cutters, to mass-produce them.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2017
• Most came in complex lapidary constructions, such as earrings that had a delicate gradient of three tones of coral.
  — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 9 June 2026
• There’s an enveloping quality to Jünger’s lapidary stylistic turn in the novel.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• Readers were clamoring for literary works that deployed irony, lapidary prose and an artful yet steely-eyed glimpse into the conflict.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• The event will feature wholesale and retail fashion accessories, gift merchandise, lapidary and beads.
  — Houston Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
• Displays include unusual rock specimens, lapidary arts, fossils, gems and minerals from around the world.
  — oregonlive, 9 Mar. 2022
• Typical of the Netflix large-portions ethos, a few new episodes are too long, and feel diluted compared with the lapidary early seasons.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2016
• In addition to lapidary displays there also will be fossils and Indian artifacts.
  — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• In both areas, not surprisingly, McEwan's brilliant, lapidary style carries the day.
  — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
• To achieve the miniature landscapes, lapidary artists and jewelers spend hundreds of hours precisely cutting the stones and placing them in a painterly way on supple gold bracelets, each a work of art.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 12 June 2024
• By one reckoning, Housman’s lapidary phrases have been used as titles for more books than any other source except the Bible and Shakespeare.
  — Jamie James, WSJ, 28 July 2017
• During the 1950s, lapidary became a popular hobby in the United States.
  — Chuck Fieldman, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2017
• Outside of science, his interests included wine making, lapidary work and orchid cultivation.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2022
• Stuart catalogs, with a lapidary eye, the effects of family trauma and wide-scale social and economic depression on his young protagonists.
  — Claire Jarvis, The Atlantic, 12 July 2022
• But whenever things turn too lapidary, the image will change to Sergio charging up a sheer hill or Gianfranco trying to winkle another thousand euros out of a chef.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2021
• The painting is labored and lapidary, a bravura display of the artist’s ability to counterfeit finishes ranging from gold to velvet to glass to fur, and to catch in a likeness the depths of longing, including his own.
  — Jane Kamensky, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
• Judy’s lapidary construction is a setting for Renée Zellweger’s performance, which attempts a precarious tribute.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 Sep. 2019
• Similarly, the movie’s dialogue is spare but not scant; Jackson writes lines of a lapidary strength and density, and her actors deliver them in a way that conveys the experience packed within.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023
• What’s more, Stravinsky’s voice as a composer and Auden’s as a poet have certain qualities in common, especially a lapidary clarity.
  — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2020
• In fact, with its gray tones, the sculptural, lapidary quality of face and flesh, and the way the head and shoulders emerge from a triangular, mountain-like shape, the composition conjures thoughts of Mount Rushmore.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 14 Feb. 2018
• Mohsin Hamid’s dynamic yet lapidary books have all explored the convulsive changes overtaking the world, as tradition and modernity clash headlong, and as refugees — fleeing war or poverty or hopelessness — try to make their way to safer ground.
  — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2017
• Kunberger-Striepe started lapidary classes to expand her jewelry skill set and started Lapidify shortly afterward.
  — Vanessa Infanzon, charlotteobserver, 12 Mar. 2018
• Holly Zewalk, an active club member, said the club's mission is to create for members and visitors opportunities to appreciate, learn and develop skills in lapidary and related sciences and arts.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 15 May 2018
• His literary criticism is sometimes classic and even lapidary, as in his famous 1912 introduction to Dickens’s novel Hard Times.
  — M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 5 Dec. 2020
• The National Review enterprise exists to promote the lapidary principles on which America was founded; to contest such manipulation and to dispel such doubt.
  — Peter J. Travers, National Review, 30 Dec. 2023