They drank champagne out of crystal glasses.
Salt crystals look really cool if you examine them under a microscope.
The liquid crystal display on my alarm clock isn't working properly, so I can't read the time.
We have fake crystal wine glasses made out of plastic for
the children to drink out of.
My little sister likes to collect crystal figurines of animals.
When we moved out from Ontario, the movers dropped a box containing our crystal, and broke it all to bits.
There was a beautiful crystal chandelier in the lobby of the hotel, but it
fell to the floor during the earthquake, and was destroyed.
There is a Turkish proverb which states that happiness is like crystal - when it shines the most, it soon cracks.
No two snowflakes have exactly the same crystal pattern.
In Siberia, it can get so cold that the moisture in a
person's breath freezes, and can actually be heard when it falls to earth as ice crystals.
Crystals grow by reproducing themselves; they come the nearest to being "alive" of all members of the minerals.
In the Bahamas, the fine, white beach sand is visible beneath the crystal clear waters for several yards out to sea.
Bohemia in the Czech Republic is famous the world over for the quality of its crystal.
Robert Browning wrote, "What youth deemed crystal, age finds out was dew."
With their music, the Beatles managed to crystallize the feelings of a generation of young people.
The children were making rock candy by putting a piece of string into sweetened water and waiting for the sugar to crystallize on the string.
Some people believe that crystals have special healing properties.
Crystals were frequently worn by ancient Egyptians as charms against bad luck.
Different cultures throughout the ages have used crystals variously for healing, protection against evil, decoration, and seeing into the future.