Sentence examples for not as precious from inspiring English sources

"They're not as precious as children, but they are born and you try to do all that you can to prepare them to go out into the world".

Those times are, in retrospect – believe it or not – as precious to me as the best Christmas I ever had.

Jokes are not as precious.

Village leaders, midwives and doctors may also hold these types of beliefs, that women who conceive out of wedlock are somehow not as precious as other women.

Back at the market, Ai Shan Zhang, a well-to-do Uighur salesman, shook his head and smiled when it was suggested that Khotan jade might not be as precious as diamonds.

"I never cared if it was precious or not as long as I liked it".

Platinum is considered a precious metal, although its use is not as common as the use of gold or silver.

The pictures show how wondrous black-and-white photography can be and are a refreshing throwback to a time when photographs were not treated as precious commodities.

As rare and as precious as ciguapas.

What was cut from the EP didn't seem as precious when it looked like Buckley had a long career ahead of him; he died in 1997 at the age of 30.

The interest here, as in all Mr. Piller's work, is precisely not in the photograph as precious object, and not in the objects depicted in the photographs, but in the cautionary back stories both suggest.