Sentence examples for it were precious from inspiring English sources

"I don't want anything in here treated as if it were precious".

They say that the boy was showing off for the urchins who followed him around as if he were some sort of divinity, the kind of boys who thrive on pain, who live to inflict and extract it as if it could be measured and held, as if it were precious, the kind of boys who carve hieroglyphs into their skin with razor blades and call it fashion.

Maybe it's precious to me especially because of its relative asceticism.

It's precious".

It's not – it's precious".

For me, it is precious.

We all agree it's precious.

CARMEN: I adore my pool; it is precious to me.

It is precious, it is irreplaceable and it is vital to the health of British theatre.

He loved luxury, but he never treated anything like it was precious.

It is loaded and it's precious to suggest it's not".