precious
Example Sentences
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The band of wolf fur was tattered and filthy, but very precious.
From Literature
And with the introduction of precious SaraLee, the curtain comes down on the first act.
From Los Angeles Times
Wyoming bought gold in December, inspired by a new law requiring precious metals purchases, now valued at about $11.6 million.
But, as Tate Britain’s concurrent “Turner and Constable” exhibition shows, Romantic nature was passionate and unstable, and all the more precious for being unknowable.
Hyperliquid listed gold and silver perpetual contracts recently, just as those precious metals experienced unusual volatility.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
