Sentence examples for heirlooms from inspiring English sources

It was impossible to estimate how much the thieves had got away with and the stolen goods would include family heirlooms and personal jewellery as well as stock from gem, diamond and pearl dealers, he said.

Stroll in the beautiful gardens, dine on local dishes in the restaurant and inspect family heirlooms in the homely honesty bar.

Her ring came up for sale at a Sotheby's auction, and I thought: "I'll probably spend too much money" [she paid £152,450], but my family doesn't have any heirlooms to pass on, so I thought it would be lovely to have it.

For a reporter it was a bittersweet moment: a reminder of an age when newspapers threw off profits so vast that an American press magnate could scavenge the globe for endangered treasures, prising heirlooms from Old World nobles before shipping them by the ton to his Californian lair.Today, all is stood on its head.

The use of such heirlooms suggests that it is hard to find new weapons.

He accused his opponent of wanting to privatise such national heirlooms as Petrobras, the oil company, three big state banks and an electricity giant.

SOMETIMES people seem to regard their old arguments rather like family heirlooms.

No one wants to see Japan's industrial heirlooms vanish.

True, his blood stirred when he heard the gypsy songs and admired the silver cups that were handed down as heirlooms.

Such heirlooms are now almost unknown, but the word has acquired a secondary and popular meaning of items of special, endearing value, such as furniture or pictures, handed down from one generation to the next.

Among the Maori, ancestral heirlooms were not to be touched without ritual purification, and mistakes in ritual, especially in the building of meetinghouses, with their powerful ancestral associations, could be fatal.