Sentence examples for formerly precious from inspiring English sources

But given the scarcity of profits, the ubiquity of a formerly precious commodity and the preponderance of his debts, one of pornography's emperors is a little short on clothes.

We're going to mine much of the formerly precious mineral to give you with this rumor, but it comes from a reliable and in-the-know friend of ours in the Apple chain of command, so we're giving it the benefit of the doubt.

But if taking the animals off farms made a certain kind of economic sense, it made no ecological sense whatever: their waste, formerly regarded as a precious source of fertility on the farm, became a pollutant — factory farms are now one of America's biggest sources of pollution.

The chef is Neal Harden, formerly of the expensive, and precious, Pure Food and Wine, in Gramercy.

Just realize that in an age when social media is all the rage, words can cause damage to a tender heart, especially one belonging to a precious yet wild flower child formerly (and formally) known as Elisabeth Corrin Maurus.

If Cadbury (now owned by Mondelēz International, formerly Kraft Foods) is to be trusted regarding the precious recipe, can the new shape really be affecting the chocolate's taste?

To be economically sustainable, our redevelopment must also be focused on sustaining our quality of life -- preserving our open space, protecting our drinking water and recycling and reusing formerly productive properties instead of gobbling up our precious few virgin ones.

On the contrary, the eradication of persecution would mean precious little to a member of a formerly persecuted sect who was nevertheless prevented from practicing his religion by the enforcement of "neutral, generally applicable" laws.

We have a precious, limited collection of recorded narratives from formerly enslaved people.

In November, investigators seized precious antiques and paintings, stacks of money and pounds of gold and jewelry from the apartment, which formerly belonged to the defense ministry.

Precious, precious few.