noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car/jewel etc thief
be dripping with jewels/gems/pearls etc
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All the princes were dripping with gems.
crown jewel
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Innsbruck’s crown jewel is the old town centre.
jewel case
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
precious
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However hopeless things were he was rejoicing because of Benedicta's words which he hugged to himself as if they were precious jewels .
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This cave is absolutely stashed With gorgeous gleaming precious jewels !
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We should tend the mind as a precious jewel box and factory that makes intangible but immortal gems.
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She shimmered and shone like a precious jewel , a princess.
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You know the power of the daydream to transform the lumber-room's contents into precious jewels .
■ NOUN
box
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A guest requests that you accept a jewel box and a bundle of notes for safe-keeping.
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Turning, she hobbled back to her room as fast as she could and took her jewel box out of the drawer.
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Unfortunately, it made software manufacturers quake in their jewel boxes .
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Again, she had kept the lid securely shut on her jewel box .
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It will make you want to visit this jewel box of a museum housed in a Fifth Avenue Manhattan mansion.
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We should tend the mind as a precious jewel box and factory that makes intangible but immortal gems.
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They often found their way around the Gulf, worked out of recognition, into coffee pots, jewel boxes and jewellery.
case
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The clip she had in her jewel case was the same one that appeared in the doge's portrait.
crown
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Such objects were probably made by goldsmiths working for chieftains, as with the crown jewels of more advanced polities.
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The petrochemical division of Pemex was seen as the crown jewel of the privatization frenzy.
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What price, one day, even the old crown jewels of News International?
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But the crown jewel of the disk is the 25-minute Clarinet Concerto, by Richard Faith.
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So it's the smaller independent companies who are now the crown jewels in many a major label's portfolio.
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This from a man who would stoop to any level, psychological gamesmanship included, to retain the crown jewels .
thief
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Ah, a glamorous jewel thief .
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The Wall Street Journal once described him as looking like an international jewel thief .
■ VERB
steal
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One night a thief broke into the church to steal jewels from the Madonna on the High Altar.
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Also, he seemed to remember reading about stolen jewels .
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An armed gang has stolen jewels worth more than five million pounds from London's Hatton Garden.
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He gave her stolen jewels and she knighted him.
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Of course, robbers got in and stole his jewels !
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be set with gems/jewels etc
the crown jewels
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He assessed her as if he was looking for flaws in a jewel .
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His eyes burned like red jewels.
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It had very few jewels in its crown.
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They compared jewels from the various swords and wondered why some knights had better jewels than others.