Synonym: beloved, costly, darling, expensive, high-priced, precious. Antonym: cheap. Similar words: dearth, move heaven and earth, year after year, dead, dean, idea, deaf, deal. Meaning: [dɪə] 
n. 1. a beloved person; used as terms of endearment 2. a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child). adj. 1. dearly loved 2. with or in a close or intimate relationship 3. earnest 4. having a high price. adv. 1. with affection 2. at a great cost.
n. 1. a beloved person; used as terms of endearment 2. a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child). adj. 1. dearly loved 2. with or in a close or intimate relationship 3. earnest 4. having a high price. adv. 1. with affection 2. at a great cost. 
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121. If you want to make money buy cheap and sell dear.
122. Dear Peter, I have been thinking about you so much during the past few days.
123. His work exalts all those virtues that we, as Americans, are taught to hold dear.
124. Please,dear,we sympathize deeply.
125. Dear Grandma, thank you for the lovely shirt you sent me for Christmas.
126. She grasped the side of the boat and hung on for dear life .
127. She was holding on to the rope for dear life.
128. He led poor Amy a dog's life. She was desperately lonely, poor dear.
129. Our lives would have been greatly impoverished if we had not known our dear friend.
130. Dear Sir, Your letter of the 9th October has been referred to us.
131. As the ship began to tilt, we clung on for dear life.
132. "That'll be five pounds, dear", he said in an irritatingly familiar way.
133. Dear me, it's already four-thirty and I said I'd be home by five!
134. A couple of missed chances in the first half cost them dear.
135. My dear Lady Mary, how very good to see you.
136. I read that our dear premier had died of cancer in today's newspaper.
137. What would you have done in my place, my dear?
138. Dear oh dear! What are you going to do now?
139. Buying that second-hand car without having it checked by a mechanic first cost us dear.
140. Dear madam, I am very glad and honoured to write to you.
141. Oh dear, there's the doorbell. See who it is, would you, darling.
142. Not a day goes by but I think of dear old Larry .
143. We were facing the loss of everything we held dear.
144. This is a subject very dear to the hearts of academics up and down the country.
144. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
145. Dear Sir, I am very glad and honoured to write to you.
146. Annie's such a dear - she's brought me breakfast in bed every morning this week.
147. I made for the life raft and hung on for dear life.
148. Any time you want a babysitter, dear, you only have to ask.
149. Here is a letter adapted from DEAR ABBY, Philadelphia Bulletin, March 9,1973.
150. Isn't he a dear?
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