How to Use opal in a Sentence

opal

noun

• To this day, 70 percent of the world's opals are mined around Coober Pedy.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2018
• The necklace with the bow is centered on an 8-carat opal.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 27 Aug. 2021
• Lightning Ridge opals have been mined since about 1901.
  — Michelle Innis, New York Times, 5 July 2016
• 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
• The silver adds a sparkle to your look, while the opal adds a little texture and color.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This no-soak treatment also works well for turquoise and opals (which are also porous stones).
  — Lauren Smith McDonough, Good Housekeeping, 28 Feb. 2023
• Cloaked in white dust and surrounded by expansive plains, the town of Lightning Ridge produces the bulk of the world’s precious black 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 her husband was digging for opal, Smith was searching for fossils.
  — Clare Watson, Smithsonian, 1 Aug. 2019
• The opal is larger than a brick and is broken into two pieces, which von Brandt said was a practice used decades ago to prove gem quality.
  — chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2022
• Howard is convinced that magic rock filled with opals is going to be his salvation.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2019
• 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
• The complex gold chain draws the eye upward and outward from the concentrated energy of the pendant to a final oval pair of small opals.
  — Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
• The palette is made up of three shades: a golden peach (Gammaray), a metallic opal (Helix), and lavender pink (Roseshock).
  — Jessica Prince Erlich, The Cut, 11 May 2018
• Jewelry is made from recycled silver and stones, such as moody opals, sapphires, white topaz and labradorite.
  — Linda Jerkins, ajc, 7 Mar. 2018
• At the Emmys, the best drama actress nominee accessorized with opal David Webb earrings and wore her hair straight and sleek.
  — Lindsay Weinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Sep. 2019
• Opal can be just about any color in the visible spectrum and most of the world's opal is mined from the Australian outback, according to the Australian Opal Centre.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 June 2019
• The result: this giant black Australian opal set high in 18-karat gold, surrounded by marquise-cut diamonds, a totem at once wicked and wise.
  — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• The clock’s glowing faces are made of opal, valued at $10 million to $20 million, according to some estimates.
  — Mary Forgione, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• For Swift’s special birthday, Sperry gave her a gorgeous opal ring, which many initially assumed was gifted to the singer by Kelce.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2024
• On the main floor is an information booth, above which is a four-sided clock made from precious opal and estimated to be worth $10 to 20 million.
  — Margie Goldsmith, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Case in point: the Instagram-favorite makeup artist known simply as @thestudyofmakeup looked to opals for her latest viral makeup look.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 20 Feb. 2018
• And a tentacle seems much less menacing when set with fire opals, rubies, and diamonds.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 16 Sep. 2014
• Howard’s plan is to sell off the opal immediately to get a loan shark—played, with menacing oiliness, by Eric Bogosian—off his tail.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 Dec. 2019
• Sweeney's metallic underwear — which retails for $5,800 on Miu Miu's website — also comes in beige (Emma Corin modeled the colorway on the runway last spring) and pink opal.
  — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024