held dear
Example Sentences
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But the roustabout Hal’s dawning maturity costs him the companion he once held dear.
From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2024
The holiday may be getting more modern, but millennia-old traditions are still held dear in China and other countries.
From National Geographic • Feb. 5, 2024
And a man who lost everything he held dear — his wife and beloved daughters — to the deadly plagues of the day.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2022
That’s even if it was “perhaps reprehensible in terms of the principles held dear by the United Nations and the international community as a whole.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2022
As a boy, he’d regarded this place as the physical representation of everything he held dear, everything he valued.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
