Sentence examples for a precious substance from inspiring English sources

For Jack, the "stuff" he's taken is "a precious substance whose unadvertised charm was love".

Jack made a fist and banged twice on his chest, thinking of Flaco, a school friend, now dead, who'd first turned him on to this stuff — a precious substance whose unadvertised charm was love.

Around the world it has been a rare and precious substance, a medicine and, most of all, a component of musky perfumes.

Clearly, the most precious substance on a warming Earth is its fresh water.

Set in a dystopian future world without water, the sci-fi thriller revolves around Ai's character, a "water smuggler" who runs the precious substance through the black market.

Tomato processors enhancing the health of consumers with their nutrient-rich tomato extract soon may enhance the health of their communities as they adopt a new, green technique for producing the precious substance.

Iraq started producing this precious substance before the war, but never got close to making enough for a bomb.

The most precious substance of all to the Maya was jade, to which their craftsmen devoted great artistry.

I sneezed it all over the place much to the dismay of people around who saw it as this precious substance," Dimbleby said.

Buyers in China, the primary market for illegal ivory, along with those in Thailand, Japan, and the Philippines, have increasingly clamoured for sculptures and trinkets carved of the precious substance.

At that moment, when Duchamp's pharmacist was sealing the little bottle, the air of Paris was, for anyone interested in the arts, the most precious substance in the world.