Sentence examples for any precious from inspiring English sources

Drainpipes channel any precious rain into the cistern.

If Guo's mother inherited any precious keepsakes, she destroyed them.

What he has thrown out is any precious quality that "Facade" might retain.

Convertible tops admit miniature geysers from every joint, and water pours past the trunk rubber to turn any precious cargo into a sodden mess.

It's a delicate operation, dislodging the roots without slicing through any precious bulbs of California Early, a soft-neck garlic variety that brings 75 cents a head at the Santa Fe farmer's market.

Gold, silver and copper are not mined in Iraq or Syria and experts believe any precious metals the group possesses have been purchased, stolen or looted in other forms and melted down.

Plato thus seems to mark it as an idea appropriated from the sophistic enemy; it is at any rate a precious piece of common ground which can provide a starting-point for argument.

Only once does a tiny trickle of pee escape his mouth and drip down his cheek, at which point Dee shouts furiously, "DO NOT WASTE ANY OF MY PRECIOUS URINE!" The slave apologizes profusely.

He's not in any way precious, and he suffers for that.

So there was the Florida secretary of state, Katherine Harris, racing like the wind to get to work yesterday so she could shut down the ballot-counting process before any more precious votes for Al Gore could be tallied.

On the backs behind prospect cottage is a prickly carpet of twigs that on closer inspection is a remarkable bonsai forest of slow trees each only a few inches high and with a spread of about a foot when in flower or fruit I can't think there any more precious sights.