"single" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Among Starlight's effects we found a single blue sapphire, apparently acquired from one of the refugees.
- A single, star-cut blue sapphire glittered in its pommel.
- This morning Marion had chosen the same long gray skirt, but a different cashmere crewneck; it was burgundy-colored, and in place of a scarf she wore a simple necklace-a thin platinum chain with a single bright-blue sapphire that matched her eyes.
- Think the moon is a blue moon, a single elephantine sapphire.
- Now suppose we compare these gigantic trivialities on the hoardings with those tiny and tremendous pictures in which the mediaevals recorded their dreams; little pictures where the blue sky is hardly longer than a single sapphire, and the fires of judgment only a pigmy patch of gold.
- At the peak of the staff there gleamed a single, monster sapphire, as deep as skies, and large as a man's two fists.
- An unadorned platinum fillet rested on his head, almost hidden by the curls of his silver-gray hair, and a platinum chain hung down from his shoulders, supporting a single sapphire in the center of his chest that matched the sapphires in the rings on his artificial hand.
- In front of him stood Tsotha, and on divans lounged Strabonus and Amalrus in their silks and gold, gleaming with jewels, naked slave-boys beside them pouring wine into cups carved of a single sapphire.
- A single sapphire blazed to life, and she was reminded of the spinning blue light flashing in her face.
- His snowy hair and white tunic drew attention to the only contrast he wore: a gold star on his shoulder, eight-pointed like Brennen's, but set with a single sapphire and circled in silver.
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