Use "precious" in a sentence

1. precious – the bond between a parent and child is the only example

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2. A gentle reminder that the most precious things in life cannot be bought nor are they made with human hands

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3. 1Peter: 1:7: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried

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4. I’m unhappily married to a freeloading spider who just squats around the web doing nothing but waste his precious energy and cost me precious sleep

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5. He and Leila had spent countless precious moments shagging on the carpet, screwing on the table, and fooling around in the den

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6. He would have to risk his life and put himself between them and the Chip, using every gadget and skill at his disposal to save the precious artifact

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7. While most of us soap-crafters who sell our precious soaps are doing what we can to help our Earth by donating things to peace-loving causes, Dr

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8. Ajarn's art was too powerful and precious to be wasted like this

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9. Yes, the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver;

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10. This heritage was too precious

11. Fellowship with those who believe in the things precious to you

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12. (13) One of the most precious gifts we have to offer a congregation is our example

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13. I wanted to light up the room, wanted to chain smoke my way through the morning, but the small bag of gifts on the mattress next to me in the darkness was too precious to waste

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14. In the thinking time afforded me by slow recovery it became clear that while the casual maltreatment of heathen prisoners might be acceptable as part of the day-to-day routine of hostage supervision, the loss of one of their precious bargaining chips before the cards have been dealt, was unthinkable

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15. As it was he lost a precious hour in that welder-bot's circular help system figuring out its fine points

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16. Kara folded the precious sheets and stowed them in her bag before replying

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17. “For the time being, she has lost everything: her precious pact with the two demons, her physical body and lots of energy

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18. We count them as being precious

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19. Since when has it been taught that God’s law and commandments are precious? Far too often it is quite the opposite

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20. "You are such a precious thing," he said, "I can't get over how much I love you

21. every precious stone was thy covering,

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22. Yet again, Kara felt the impact of the massive divide between her culture and that of Earth – something the exploration of the seaside resort had highlighted; the sheer volume of … words failed her … stuff that was on sale in the shops … most of it completely superfluous … badly made, cheap (in every meaning of the word) ornaments of no practical use whatsoever and precious little artistic merit, deliberately manufactured to clutter up somebody’s home … and then there was the food and drink on offer! Everywhere she’d looked there had been foodstuffs on sale and people eating … battered fish, hot savoury smelling sausages, the tart scent of vinegar on chips fresh from the fryers … and ices of every conceivable flavour … and those unbelievable sweets in all shapes and sizes … and, according to Iain, this particular seaside resort was a relatively small one … by the time Iain turned off the motorway at the Taunton interchange, she had concluded that although it had been fun visiting, really, when it came down to it, she preferred her own world

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23. But I suppose diamonds are not much in demand where you are an, I know you prefer your precious lapis lazuli beads

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24. The mundane is made holy, and the common is made precious

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25. Torsdag afternoon, with precious little notice, Wiesse announces that Joris and Berndt will be coming for dinner

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26. What had happened to her children, the precious fruit of her womb? One she had left with his Troll father in Yoonbarla when she and Oliar left Wescarp for the isle of Zhinldu in the late 41st

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27. This boat is the fastest in these waters … according to Drens at any rate, and I don’t think he is given to exaggeration, even with regard to his precious Aquarian

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28. He understood the attraction of Megnor girls, their child-like size made them precious, but their wombs were still eager for a good sized man

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29. They are precious and are deserving of your consideration

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30. She left it at that, just stayed there for a few precious minutes wrapped in his arms

31. 'This is the chapel of Agia Agni and that is the precious Agia Agni icon

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32. Thank you Lord, for all these precious moments, but most of all, thank-you for Daniel

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33. We talked about the property David had left, discussing the different options open to us, suggesting that it might be best to keep the house for the time being, depositing anything precious in storage and, putting it in the hands of a reliable agent, letting it out until such time as Abi was of age

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34. Then Manolis spoke, 'If I may make a suggestion, at the present time the village population is swelled by many proud Sophians who have travelled far to be on the soil of their ancestors for the festival and this soil is very precious to them

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35. I don't remember climbing down into the courtesy boat in the harbour but before her goons pushed away, Daphne reappeared at the gangplank with one more thing to say, 'Before you go running round in circles with your Greek girlfriend and your pathetic little gang in your precious Sophia, let me ask you a question

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36. ‘Anna, what is your preference with regard to precious stones?’

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37. It was only after the war, when I was about thirteen and my mother was sickening, that she told me about the precious things I had seen that afternoon

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38. Lord Boras left the Hall with a sigh of relief and as much dignity as he could muster; Naria had left him precious little

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39. ‘Katie, I think you’re my precious daughter and, although you’re very grown up in lots of ways, you’re still only fifteen and I’m responsible for protecting you – even if it’s from yourself at times!’

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40. Rob proudly hands over his mother to Simon who takes her hand as though it were a precious gift

41. She had at least eight necklaces, all of them gold, some with additional beads of precious stones

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42. Children are so precious! You can help them in many

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43. 2 To say you are precious is the greatest of all truths

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44. and my mother was sickening, that she told me about the precious

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45. I want to revel in the fact that I could cause a positive change in a precious life

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46. precious stones - they can be yours!’

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47. course, as they had precious little after the guards

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48. The witch laughed aloud, ‘This is just too precious

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49. Gehring was also a nice person; she often asked after 'those precious sisters' of his when she came by to fetch her husband, whom she knew would be in the aisles of the little store

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50. “How are those precious girls in this heat? Dreadful, isn't it? If there were some breeze perhaps it would be less insufferable; but then there'd be all that dust blowing about

51. likely to recklessly damage any of his precious trucks and cars

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52. Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine

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53. At that time eyes were so precious that he was the only one in the department with one and it was connected by fiber directly to the New Orthanc hub

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54. The current account balance is 1,44,33 beads of iron or equivalent in other precious metals payable to designated committeeman of the Kassikan, that would be me, no later than one year from this date, that would be Nightday of Chezhervizhod 100,21,23

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55. ’ I stroke her hair, suddenly aware of how young she still is and how very precious

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56. “My precious friend, you have been away at the Memorial theater for long hours every day

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57. “The imps are currently destroying your precious village right now

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58. walls of precious stones, all my

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59. adorned with all kinds of precious

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60. none the less precious for that

61. She is more precious than

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62. and silver, with precious stones and

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63. eye on his precious jars to make sure they weren’t stolen

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64. dresses were tore, masks fell off faces, and the precious betting slips flew though

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65. There is nothing in heaven nor on the earth which could ever cause me to break that most precious vow

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66. ‘Here is your precious little Dan Sherman,’ he said, as he threw him onto the floor and kicked him over to me

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67. And then followed by my thank you cards for appreciation for the precious little cute Christmas gift you had sent to me last September, 1980

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68. would that soul look like as it trembled in those precious pupils…

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69. He was my precious brother—

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70. Telling of your precious love and mercy, Giving all the honor to Jesus

71. He stepped over the broken door, entering the precious armory of his lord

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72. Blades and armor of rare and precious materials had been looted, as well as many ‘less typical’, though equally precious weapons

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73. We paid appropriate homage to the precious thing

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74. one of the most precious works of art in existence –

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75. sapphires, emeralds and other precious stones, the piece

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76. It is like precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard; that went down to the skirts of his garment

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77. Dwarven artisans and builders could often be found in Lock Core, but the majority of their people remained in the mountains; the Rock Dwarves dwelling deep within, burrowing caverns, halls and mining the rich supply of precious ore, while the Boulder Dwarves lived upon the cliffs, constantly sculpting the mountain face into elaborate caves

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78. "You're precious near your end, my friend, but I don't want you to go till I have had a word with you

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79. "The precious Lock Core," he said, rolling the final words off the tip of a protruding tongue

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80. together in unity! It is like the precious oil upon the head,

81. workmen, not only of equal, but of much superior ingenuity, on account of the precious

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82. As soon as his eyes could bear the light he went home, where he told his mother what had happened, and showed her the lamp and the fruits he had gathered in the garden, which were really precious stones

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83. better! In no time at all he'll have delivered his precious

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84. This precious item belongs with the body of Saint Jacques

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85. As he did so, Brice saw that his eyes were emerald green and even sparkled like the precious ore

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86. The sugar colonies possessed by the European nations in the West Indies may be compared to those precious vineyards

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87. Relieved of his precious relic, Genet had become a

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88. She gaped open-mouthed for too many precious seconds

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89. that long road home to his precious family

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90. Hence arises a demand for every sort of material which human invention can employ, either usefully or ornamentally, in building, dress, equipage, or household furniture ; for the fossils and minerals contained in the bowels of the earth, the precious metals, and the precious stones

91. The coarse, and still more the precious metals, when separated from the ore, are so valuable, that they can generally bear the expense of a very long land, and of the most distant sea carriage

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92. The price, therefore, of the coarse, and still more that of the precious metals, at the most fertile mines in the world, must necessarily more or less affect their price at every other in it

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93. Even this tax upon silver, too, gives more temptation to smuggling than the tax of one twentieth upon tin; and smuggling must be much easier in the precious than in the bulky commodity

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94. After replacing the stock employed in working those different mines, together with its ordinary profits, the residue which remains to the proprietor is greater, it seems, in the coarse, than in the precious metal

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95. The lowest price at which the precious metals can be sold, or the smallest quantity of other goods for which they can be exchanged, during any considerable time, is regulated by the same principles which fix the lowest ordinary price of all other goods

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96. As the prices, both of the precious metals and of the precious stones, is regulated all over the world by their price at the most fertile mine in it, the rent which a mine of either can afford to its proprietor is in proportion, not to its absolute, but to what may be called its relative fertility, or to its superiority over other mines of the same kind

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97. The most abundant mines, either of the precious metals, or of the precious stones, could add little to the wealth of the world

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98. That abundance of food, of which, in consequence of the improvement of land, many people have the disposal beyond what they themselves can consume, is the great cause of the demand, both for the precious metals and the precious stones, as well as for every other conveniency and ornament of dress, lodging, household furniture, and equipage

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