How to Use opal in a Sentence

opal

noun

• The star also added some opal pieces.
  — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
• Those opal cat-eye nails are feeling very bride to me!
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Mar. 2026
• The star is its light pink opal, which is surrounded by a string of gold beads.
  — Izzy Baskette, People.com, 30 May 2025
• One of them was a pair of earrings that contained precious opals.
  — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
• The center gem is a large opal, glittering and bright, just like our sun.
  — Jessica Rendall, Space.com, 4 June 2025
• The thin silver chain features pearl-petal flowers with faceted opal and glass beads.
  — Ali Faccenda, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
• Salvation appears, not in the form of a rare opal, but as a lost purse full of gold coins.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 15 July 2021
• Opalite is a song about love, which is fitting since Kelce’s birthstone is the opal.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
• The silver adds a sparkle to your look, while the opal adds a little texture and color.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
• To this day, 70 percent of the world's opals are mined around Coober Pedy.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2018
• Cilantro and opal basil leaves are fresh and floral, scattered over the finished tostada.
  — Restaurant Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
• This no-soak treatment also works well for turquoise and opals (which are also porous stones).
  — Lauren Smith McDonough, Good Housekeeping, 28 Feb. 2023
• Howard is convinced that magic rock filled with opals is going to be his salvation.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2019
• Mix metals, stones, enamels, opals, and different shapes and sizes.
  — Jenifer Calle, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2025
• This year, stone dials have been all the rage from bold jade to more unconventional opal.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 30 July 2024
• In the turmoil, the mine is evacuated, and two workers wrench a rare black opal from the seam.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2019
• While her husband was digging for opal, Smith was searching for fossils.
  — Clare Watson, Smithsonian, 1 Aug. 2019
• Aran doesn’t recommend this method for emeralds, opals, or any semi-precious stones.
  — Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 27 Mar. 2025
• The pigments are mixed with the glow powder and inlaid into a channel in the ring with synthetic opal.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2021
• Lightning Ridge is known for its dark opals, and the opalized plant and animal fossils in and around its mines.
  — Michelle Innis, New York Times, 5 July 2016
• Deep opal nails bring an iridescent glow that feels almost otherworldly.
  — Jennifer Hussein, InStyle, 17 Jan. 2026
• The men were alarmed to return to an empty camp, but Willie showed up later that night with a huge bag of opals slung over his shoulder.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2018
• Swifties searching for clues to the album think that song might have special meaning for Travis, whose birthstone is opal.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2025
• And a tentacle seems much less menacing when set with fire opals, rubies, and diamonds.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 16 Sep. 2014
• Do not use Windex on softer gems like pearls, opals, or emeralds, because the ammonia may damage them.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 19 June 2026
• Stand before it and note the wildness of its gold borders, the generous use of opal and demantoid garnet.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 5 June 2023
• And for more than 100 years, people have come to the Ridge to find their fortune chasing precious opal.
  — Clare Watson, Smithsonian, 1 Aug. 2019
• The manager demonstrated how to use the rock hammers, and then people got to banging away, trying to find opals in the rock.
  — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 31 Jan. 2024
• While Opalite is an artificial product, it's made to look like opal, which is Kelce's birthstone.
  — Lian Brooks, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2025
• With a finish like mother of pearl or opal, ammonites have been mined, cut and polished into gemstones called ammolite.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024