Sentence examples for can be precious from inspiring English sources
The payoff can be precious.
It can be precious, humorless and perceptively self-satisfied.
In part, McElwee can be precious about his privacy because he is comfortable.
He convinced us that art can be precious, and jewelry need not be.
But the Waverly's prices can be precious, the $55 macaroni and cheese with truffles being the most notorious example.
Its desserts, though, can be precious; a toasted sesame pudding with an elderflower and shiso consommé comes to mind.
I liked his intellectual certainty, but he was extraordinarily open and generous to ideas that challenged his beliefs, which was unusual in a world which can often be precious.
It can be a precious period.
People can be too precious about their "heritage", about their "tradition" – writers especially.
As a mother of three, I can attest that pregnancy can be a precious time in a woman's life.
And it was Bradley who sounded hopeful for the immediate future after beating Chivas: Every point can be so precious.
