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How to use the word precious in a Sentence? Page #7

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I couldn’t believe what I had seen, i discovered something not only precious for the family, but American history was uncovered.

Mark Jessee

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Nothing is worthless on the earth, Trace your hidden skills and make yourself a precious one :)

Mitesh Dalal

added by miteshdalal
6 years ago

More needs to be done, and it’s important for the country to be united in the same way the 17 families united in support of this bill, my precious daughter Meadow’s life was taken, and there’s nothing I can do to change that, but make no mistake, I’m a father and I’m on a mission. I’m on a mission to make sure I’m the last dad to ever read a statement of this kind.

Andrew Pollack

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Your Mind waits and waits and only waits for it never commits into anything seriously, it only loves to wander aimlessly. Time is very precious, ACT Now, Breathe Life!

RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
6 years ago

I am glad to have some closure, i want to ask that person why would they take a life so precious away from his family. Armani was my perfect Angel. He was the worlds greatest dad and son.

Amber Coles

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When I found out I had cancer, I decided I was going to enjoy every day I had left. That’s what I’m going to do now. I’m going to find something to do each day. Each day that I’m idle means I’m wasting the gift God gave me. Life is too precious to waste a single day.”

Joe Marelle

added by JoJoOwens88
6 years ago

Two precious girls were brutally murdered while walking together in their hometown, four men associated with MS-13 have been charged with the killings… I am calling on the Congress to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed MS-13, and other criminals, to break into our country.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

... Preventing stormwater from carrying pollutants into the ecosystems around an area. But a few states over, in Colorado, the semi-arid environment makes water a precious resource. There are significant number of unknowns, even if you just look at the water retention requirements, colorado has very extensive water rights laws. There are also mechanical and engineering challenges, plus ongoing maintenance expenses and concerns costs will be passed down to consumers, hurting smaller businesses and renters. Whether it's office rents, or apartment rents, the biggest complaint we hear daily in Colorado right now is rents are too high, said developer Jim Neenan, president and CEO of Prime West Development. Another issue raised is that it impacts all buildings of a certain size, regardless of whether it's a church, historical building, non-profit or affordable housing. You can drive around the city or walk around the city, you can see example after example of buildings that there would be no way to put a green roof on.

Kathie Barstnar

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The recent inter-Korean high-level talks are a precious fruition of the new policy set forth by the respected Supreme Leader in his New Year Address to improve the north-south relations, he is a peerless patriot and the supreme incarnation of love and benevolence as he is creditably carrying forward the patriotic history with the same warm love for the nation and benevolence as those of the great leaders.

Rodong Sinmun

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It is fragile, precious and unpredictable and each day is a gift, not a given right.

Holly Butcher

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Mainstream America is depending on you - counting on you - to draw your sword and fight for them. These people have precious little time or resources to battle misguided Cinderella attitudes, the fringe propaganda of the homosexual coalition, the feminists who preach that it's a divine duty for women to hate men, blacks who raise a militant fist with one hand, while they seek preference with the other.

Charlton Heston

added by regnumveritatis
7 years ago

What does that mean, 'to be content'? One could argue, 'to have everything'. But can you have everything? Or do you already have everything, but don’t know it? The most precious thing in your life happens to be right under your nose, and you’re not aware of it. What is it? The coming and going of this breath.

Prem Rawat

added by anonymous
7 years ago

He was perfect last night, perfect this morning. And then … it’s just precious. Life is precious.

Corey West

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

added by regnumveritatis
7 years ago

My precious little girl is out there, and we have to bring her home.

Anthony Thomas

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Life is precious. You’ve got to make sure if you’re doing big events that you know what you’re doing, promoters need to sit down and work out what props they’re using and how this could affect people.

Preeya Adams

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

For many parents, there is a loss of that rare and precious time to relax by themselves.

Meg Akabas

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Water may become increasingly scarce and precious...; that's why I drink beer!

Fabrice

added by anonymous
7 years ago

As a working professional in the entertainment industry, I have come to truly cherish both my creative freedom and my independence. Because I, for one, know how precious and priceless they are.

Cat Ellington

added by anonymous
7 years ago

This coup attempt has shown once again how precious democracy and are freedoms for us all, all 133 CHP members of parliament will be at Taksim. But we are not the only owners of democracy, everybody must come to the meeting and show the world how much democracy has been internalized (by Turks).

Engin Altay

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Freedom means that every human life is precious and must be protected, freedom means Supreme Court Justices who don’t dictate policy, but instead follow the Constitution.

Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

$177 billion is a big pay cheque that the world is missing out on - about half a percentage point of GDP of these countries, we have to stop wasting the world's most precious economic and social asset and ensure children thrive.

Peter Singer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our old gold, with our shining gold, our old sins, our most shining sins, or we must perish forever. Christ is to be sought and bought with any pains, at any price; we can not buy this gold too dear. He is a jewel more worth than a thousand worlds, as all know who have him. Get him, and get all; miss him and miss all.

Thomas Brooks (1608-1680)

added by meteorstorm
8 years ago

The future of our children is on our knees -Precious Musanu

George Bernard Shaw

added by anonymous
8 years ago

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