Like seeing imitation pearls by the side of real pearls.

A variety of methods are used to create imitation pearls from starting materials that include glass, plastic, and actual mollusc shell.

Natural and cultured pearls can be distinguished from imitation pearls using a microscope.

Bracelets of double-strand imitation pearls, in black or white, are $40.

The inattentive, or most drunk, get socked in the head with imitation pearls.

Someone else pulled her necklace, and imitation pearls spread underfoot.

I posed with a strand of imitation pearls.

IN the box that Copley thrust forward was a most remarkable display of imitation pearls.

She wore several valuable rings and rather a large quantity of very good and expensive imitation pearls.

Machelle's eyes brightened like she'd been given the Hope Diamond, though it was only imitation pearl.