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Sentence count:178+12Posted:2016-10-24Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: costlydearexpensivepricelessspecialvaluableAntonym: valuelessSimilar words: precariouspreciseofficiousimprecisepreciselyvivaciousatrociousaudaciousMeaning: ['preʃəs]  adj. 1. characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for 2. of high worth or cost 3. obviously contrived to charm. adv. extremely. 
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151, Breath, energy and time are precious commodities for Mr McTear.
152, The dazzling inlay of precious stones was long ago picked out with daggers.
153, These wines are precious enough to be good choices for restaurant wine lists.
154, Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. Mitch Albom 
155, Suddenly a blond boy of about three darted through the door ... and the precious hope in Kerry's heart died.
156, Jewelled cups, their precious stones glinting in the sunlight, and silver dishes were laid out on handsome chests and cabinets.
157, Water is a precious commodity too long taken for granted in the West.
158, The precious place of the nude was bolstered by the economics of the art market in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
159, We planned to cut ice bollards and ice threads to save our precious supply of abseil gear.
160, Trent didn't expect the twelve thicknesses of cotton sheet to last but each minute that they held would gain precious distance.
161, This work is consolidating Johnson Matthey's position as a world leader in precious metal refining.
162, To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. Anthony Burgess 
163, This is a precious text, its publishers and authors are saying, that gloriously defies vulgar commercial logic.
164, She's been a good little girl sharing her bedroom and all her precious bits and bobs with you.
165, The value of this precious metal could be modified by alloying with baser materials.
166, To my mind[sentencedict.com/precious.html], the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. Mahatma Gandhi 
167, Despite the catalogue of comments, there is precious little in his past or present to support such a contention.
168, Development people have invented another of their precious acronyms for what everyone else in the world calls media.
169, He must have watched his digital watch flick away each precious minute and second.
170, The Profitboss doesn't squander precious time writing and reading lengthy job descriptions.
171, The forest had already been defoliated and the oaks and aspens were expending precious energy sending out a second flush of leaves.
172, I had, in effect, convinced her that television was a precious commodity.
173, I had no answers and precious little consolation to offer him to mitigate the facts.
174, Now, when life is so precious, I can look back on that period with shocked amazement.
175, On merchant ships the sailors work largely in darkness below decks because oil is a precious thing.
176, The very presence of the mines necessitated a large allocation of precious manpower to keep the roads open.
177, And if these boxcars specially loaded were not so marked, where might our precious horses find themselves?
178, The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. Confucius 
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