(n.) An ornament or a fetter for the ankle; an ankle ring.
Example Sentences:
(1) He wears a ring on his leg, denoting that he is listed in the independent bird register, and alymeri anklets to which jesses are fitted.
(2) The grand mufti of Australia should be monitored using an electronic anklet, and incoming Syrian refugees should be subjected to tougher security tests, the independent senator Jacqui Lambie has said.
(3) Umarwal, who was pregnant at the time, sold her anklets to pay for bus tickets to move back, with her daughters, into her parents’ home in Tonk, about 150km from Jaipur, in Rajasthan state.
(4) Deet-impregnated anklets gave about 84% protection against Culex quinquefasciatus Say for 80 days after one impregnation, in a trial in which the anklets were brought out of sealed storage and tested for 2 h nightly.
(5) He had only recently been released from Wandsworth prison, and was now required to wear an electronic anklet while reporting to the local police station on a daily basis.
Jewellery
Definition:
(n.) See Jewelry.
Example Sentences:
(1) I had jewellery, so I pawned all that, and I taught yoga – that paid the school fees.
(2) "She [Simpson] was one of the most stylish women of the day, and there is a lasting fascination with their lives together which shows no sign of going away," said Bryony Meredith, head of Sotheby's jewellery department.
(3) Yassine, who declined to provide his surname, is the son of a Parisian jewellery designer and a "not that famous" French artist.
(4) In 43 the primary eczema was on the hands, in 38 under costume jewellery, suspenders, ect.
(5) Cars, furniture, books, dishes, TVs, highways, buildings, jewellery, toys and even electricity would not exist without water.
(6) Anas, a nurse, had wanted her children to stay but she relented and sold her gold jewellery when her son Salim found a way to get to Brazil, where he now has asylum after failing to reach the US.
(7) There was a shop that I knew of because I've been in there a couple of times before and I knew they sold costume jewellery and stuff.
(8) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
(9) He’s nine now but he has seen it.” Others using the vault feared they had lost jewellery, family heirlooms, cash and essential documents, he added.
(10) 1928's Downton Abbey jewellery collection If it's the jewels and the glitz that gets you going on Downton, then you'll be pleased to know that you can emulate the luxury of Lady Edith from as little as £11.25 (via ACHICA) – though what Lady Mary would make of such cheap imitations doesn't bear thinking of.
(11) My suspicion is there was something [the thieves] were specifically after, otherwise why would they have taken some and left others?” The stolen goods would range from family heirlooms, personal jewellery and dealers’ stock, he said.
(12) This may be a gift of cosmetics, jewellery or clothing, or may be food related.
(13) However, in an interview with the Guardian the families questioned the claims made by the police that the girls had funded the trip with stolen family jewellery.
(14) China is poised to overtake India to become the world's biggest market for gold this year thanks to soaring investment purchases of bullion and steadily rising jewellery sales, according to the World Gold Council's annual report.
(15) In recent months many companies have sprung up offering to buy gold jewellery and other items in exchange for cash.
(16) I know for a fact that some of my work colleagues have got boxes down there and we are talking about hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds in goods.” Malka said the safe-deposit boxes were used to store both jewellery and loose diamonds in packets.
(17) The costumes look remarkably grand for home theatricals, the jewellery is startlingly convincing, and the band evidently comprises moonlighting members of the Royal Horse Guards.
(18) The tie-up with Argos is more surprising as the camping to jewellery retailer’s range of products overlaps more closely with Sainsbury’s range of non-food goods.
(19) The elements you use in jewellery come from the earth,” explains Leane, “metal, gemstones.
(20) American viewers mourning the death of Dan Stevens' character Matthew Crawley at the end of the show's Christmas special will be able to drown their sorrows with Downton wine, wear Downton jewellery and grow Downton roses, as part of a merchandising push aimed at capitalising on the drama's phenomenal global success.