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Definition
a distinct feature or element in a problemor more rarely: a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone)
- Again Langdon sensed there remained some facet of this mystery yet to reveal itself.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- The scourge of PCP — "angel dust" — had begun to grip almost every facet of barrio life.Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
- The world dim-featured in mouldering light, floating, faceted and without dimension.Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
- "It turns out, though, the hacker stumbled onto a facet of the Masonic mystery I don't think he expected."Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
- But one of the strangest facets of our world is how fugitives from justice can hide in a world as interconnected as ours.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- The red wine trapped the light like the facet of a ruby.Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John
- Dios, was the truth right in front of my facet There's one person who can tell me the truth about the night my dad died.Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
- A flock of them, collected points of light halfway up the sky, made a turn all at one time, and showed the facets of their flight clear as a diamond.Eudora Welty -- The Golden Apples
- The million chipped facets of its glass head refract the light and make it look like a meteor.Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
- Each new question, each new catechism chapter, each new story seemed to open up a thousand facets concerning the salvation of my soul.Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima
- The image of Edward in the meadow—glowing, shimmering like his skin was made of a million diamond facets—was burned into my memory.Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
- There was the Prism Room, which was dripping with crystals, basically: chandeliers, candelabras, faceted windows.James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment
- The latter reflected the sun's rays from the thousand facets of their crystals.Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Brill had wanted handles she'd seen in a Paris hotel, faceted crystal knobs the size of Ping-Pong balls.Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
- Another facet of cosmic reason.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- It was cut in a million facets, so that even in the subdued light shining from the lamp, it sparkled.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- However, it had not been my intention to analyse here the various facets of this small episode from years ago.Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
- I can feel my heart beating wildly in every facet of my body.Colleen Hoover -- Hopeless
- You destroyed its true form, which is that of a pyramid, with six sides or facets.'Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
- A flock of them, collected points of light halfway up the sky, made a turn all at one time, and showed the facets of their flight clear as a diamond.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty