How to Use lapis lazuli in a Sentence

lapis lazuli

noun

• The lake, now filled with rain and snow melt, was the color of deep blue lapis lazuli.
  — Brian E. Clark, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2019
• The list includes a dagger with a blade of iron and a gold hilt with inlays of lapis lazuli.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2022
• The solid gold base glints with lapis lazuli, turquoise and other semiprecious stones.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2022
• Or a necklace made of lapis lazuli, believed by the ancients to ward off melancholy.
  — Kathleen Rooney, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2021
• During the European Middle Ages, Afghanistan was the only known source of the rare blue stone, lapis lazuli.
  — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• But who was mining the lapis lazuli in Afghanistan and under what conditions?
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• But using lapis lazuli as medicine wasn’t widespread in Germany in the Middle Ages.
  — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• The frame is original, and the painting is lavish in its use of gold and precious pigments such as lapis lazuli.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
• The sound box of the instrument was incrusted with carnelian, lapis lazuli, and mother-of-pearl.
  — National Geographic, 22 May 2019
• Lipton sourced the lapis lazuli in her necklace and matching ring from Afghanistan, which has been mining the blue rock for almost 7,000 years.
  — Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• The vibrant blue was derived from the semiprecious stone lapis lazuli, which was heated and ground up to produce a pigment.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2020
• Here, a case and crown set with sapphires and diamonds meets a dial plate with onyx, mother-of-pearl, lapis lazuli, and jasper.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Dec. 2020
• To achieve their effects, the Mughal court artists used pigments composed, among other things, of lapis lazuli, gold, tin and charcoal.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 18 May 2018
• While Tiffany is synonymous with the robin’s-egg blue that has adorned its packaging since the late 1800s, the new store highlights a darker, lapis lazuli blue.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 June 2022
• Her elaborate headdress was made of 20 gold leaves, lapis lazuli and carnelian beads, as well as a large golden comb.
  — National Geographic, 22 May 2019
• Pieces of lapis lazuli, malachite or onyx are carved into shapes to fit as overlays onto the bridges, plates and bezels, or to serve as indexes.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 10 June 2021
• Almost anything can be found carved from lapis lazuli, a semiprecious, deep blue gemstone native to Afghanistan.
  — Rod Nordland, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
• Sprinkles of that very lapis lazuli would go on to line King Tutankhamen’s funeral mask and, as is common lore, the eyelids of one Cleopatra.
  — Emily Leibert, Allure, 25 Jan. 2024
• For example one secondary bedroom suite has a faucet inset with lapis lazuli (bright blue stone).
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2019
• From top: Chanel Volute Marine necklace and bracelet in white and yellow gold, diamonds, and lapis lazuli.
  — Tanya Dukes, ELLE Decor, 10 May 2021
• The team turned to the dagger’s gold hilt, decorated with intricate patterns of fine gold grains and stones of lapis lazuli, carnelian and malachite.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2022
• This parrot couple is forged in white gold with emerald, lapis lazuli, turquoise, onyx, and round and baguette-cut diamonds evocative of feathers.
  — Daily Intelligencer, 30 Oct. 2017
• The display of lingual lapis lazuli provides one of the intimate moments between human and animal at the Roos and Mates tour.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2019
• One of the most prized pigments was the deep blue made with the semi-precious stone lapis lazuli, writes Allison Meier for Hyperallergic.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
• Hidden among some bronze weapons was a magnificent gold dagger with a lapis lazuli handle.
  — National Geographic, 22 May 2019
• Crushed lapis lazuli, a blue semi-precious stone, was intermingled with the turquoise for added color effect.
  — Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2020
• Take this Gem Dior watch, an homage to couture and nature in lapis lazuli and malachite cut asymmetrically to evoke a swirl of fabric swatches pinned to a mood board.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 9 June 2023
• Egyptian blue got its start as an artificial replacement for dye made of lapis lazuli, a semiprecious stone mined in a region that is now Afghanistan.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
• But equally remarkable, for Babcock, is the gold garment pin displayed nearby, which would have held amulets and cylinder seals, like the one carved from lapis lazuli found on Puabi’s body.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• The brand’s calling card is basics with a twist: silver rings with chain-like forms, chains that look like nothing else on the market, forms studded with semi-precious stones like lapis lazuli and turquoise.
  — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024