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precious English

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precious

When something is precious, it is something that you have a fond affection for. When something is precious, it has a high worth or cost.

precious

(= cherished, treasured, wanted) characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for a cherished friend children are precious a treasured heirloom so good to feel wanted of high worth or cost diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and emeralds are precious stones extremely there is precious little time left (= valued) held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature a valued friend precious memories (= cute) obviously contrived to charm an insufferably precious performance a child with intolerably cute mannerisms

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Simple sentences

Gold is more precious than iron.
Gold is a precious metal.
Nothing is as precious as love.
Perry obtained precious information from him.
It was a precious clock his grandmother, who was in the hospital, gave him.
Nothing is so precious as health.
Health is the most precious thing we have.
Time is more precious than anything else.
Nothing is so precious as time.
Water is as precious as air.
The savage robbed me of my precious jewels and ran away.
Friendship is the most precious of all.
There's nothing as precious as love.
This region produces precious minerals.
Your friendship is most precious to me.
Gold is more precious than any other metal.
Nothing is as precious as friendship.
My children are very precious to me.
It is often said that nothing is more precious than time.

Movie subtitles

This is the Precious belt Bridge at Suzhou, with its 53 arches, one of the architectural marvels of the Grand canal.
Admiral Zheng He's enormous ships and his emperor's grandiose ambitions had done precious little for China.
That you are my precious possession.
It's not precise, but. typically, when the thing that the person considers most precious enters the body, the soul that entered later can be separated.
The thing that is most precious to the Magistrate's mother.
When the thing that the body's owner considers the most precious gets inside the body, the soul that entered later can be separated.
To protect the people precious to you?
And he's carrying it like it's, you know, the most precious thing in the entire world.
But marriage is a precious thing.
It's only money, just precious money!
Come on, my little precious.
Every day is precious.
This way, precious.
They fill their sacks with the precious leaves.
They may be a precious and cherished thing to humans, but if one were to erase them completely, then there would be no more grief in the world.
I mean. well, you were gonna run away with your precious gordon.
My precious brother.
BE BRIEF. YOUR TIME IS AS PRECIOUS AS OURS Precisely!
Four or five precious hours wasted! Why didn't you wake me up at once?
My lamb, my lamb, my precious.
For my precious treasure? The dearest little fellow that ever was.
Take precious care of him, Peggotty.
Don't be frightened, my precious.
The precious. the darling. She's. she's.
Goodbye, my precious. My love.
If you don't pay, we'll take all the rest of your goods! Aye, and your precious little girl, too.
If you consider your life to be precious then swear here that you won't think about Musashi!
Every day is precious. Every hour.
Look, big steamer. Bearing her precious human freight to the farthest flung outposts of the Empire.
Four or five precious hours wasted!
Don't spill the precious sake.
Our precious name might get into the papers.
I won't see your precious Selma.
What has she done to earn such a precious reputation?

News and current affairs

Our intense desire to take all that we can from nature leaves precious little for other forms of life.
It is a little precious to hear such pontifications from those who, at the helm of central banks, finance ministries, and private banks, steered the global financial system to the brink of ruin - and created the ongoing mess.
There is the potential for oil and gas exploration, and of mining iron ore and precious metals.
Precious time was squandered before North Korea's first nuclear test in 2006. Though Bush shifted his policy toward bilateral negotiations with the North a few months later, the Kim regime had become much more obstinate.
But for countries that have scope to invest more, particularly those that are holding a surfeit of precious development dollars in idle US Treasury bills, the time may be ripe to reassess the balance of risks.
But the worst effects were on our human capital, our most precious resource.
At a time of growing concern about climate change, Europeans should be made aware of the long-term destruction done to a precious and fragile habitat for the sake of a short-term high.
These funds are a precious resource in fighting poverty.
Democracy is a precious but also a precarious set of values.
So far it has offered precious few answers.
Indeed, Europe's finance ministries face a dilemma over how much of their stretched national budgets to allocate to the military; and European defense officials must somehow ensure that precious funding is spent in the most efficient manner.
Policymakers with the wisdom of Solomon, of whom there are precious few, are required.
Free speech is immensely precious, and so is the dignity and integrity of humans.
The gains from MDRI debt relief will amount to precious little if low-income countries emerge from their debt burdens only to start the cycle anew by amassing fresh debt.
They will agree that our ability to distinguish right from wrong is something precious that we should safeguard, not a broken clock that scientists should fix.
Precious time was squandered before North Korea's first nuclear test in 2006.
By contrast, African countries often see the worst sides of multinationals: energy, mineral, and precious metal companies go where resources are, not where it's pleasant to work.
We should consider the front pages of every free nation's newspapers as a precious set of documents, to be replicated and shared openly throughout the world, especially in countries where heavy state censorship exists.
Simply put, governments can no longer afford to drain precious time and money that could be better spent elsewhere by locking up people for drug-related offenses.
But, unlike in the colonial era, the human outflows are not compensated by inflows of natural resources or precious metals.
Its emperors used silver from Persia, glass from Europe, precious stones from Central Asia, and gold implements from India.
Voters tend to get rid of governments once the incumbents have lost their most precious attribute: the benefit of the doubt.

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