Sentence examples for pearls from inspiring English sources

She seems in her element among rural voters, all smiles, pearls and a sweater slung over her shoulders.

From more recent times there are the Bulgari pearl earrings that Taylor wore in the 1973 film Ash Wednesday, alongside Monroe's pearl necklace given by the baseball superstar DiMaggio, made by the company of the pioneer of cultured pearls, Kokichi Mikimoto.

The grain of sand myth is so entrenched that the V&A has included a video showing precisely how pearls are formed – how tiny tapeworm larvae that live in the digestive systems of animals such as sharks and stingrays are excreted and then, very rarely, manage to get into water-filtering shellfish.

But, deliciously, she pronounces the pearls "non-negotiable".

The flower buds, like milky pearls held in the green clasp of its pointed green sepals, held aloft on a four-inch stalk, were still closed.

A life-sized Virgin in purple holds a string of huge pearls.

And there's been a continuous passion for pearls over centuries, it never ceases really and that is very different to other gemstones".

The most coveted and expensive pearls are judged on their roundness, perfection and lustre, and come in shades dictated by their shells, from white to pistachio green, pink, gold and aubergine.

He was the man who in the early 20th century developed the methods needed to produce cultured pearls on an industrial scale.

One display features buckets of far more affordable Chinese pearls, grown on a vast, industrial scale in rice fields and on housing estates.

The exhibition also shows how pearls have often been seen as a sign of power and authority, in the medieval period, or as a symbol of purity and chastity, and that pearls can symbolise both love and sorrow.