Sentence examples for precious instant from inspiring English sources

Quirks, pastimes, and passions: The wacky and wonderful ways we distract ourselves and seek meaning and fulfillment during our precious instant on Planet Earth.

We boil up the fetid and scaly kettle hundreds of times a day, hoarding our precious stashes of instant coffee out of the sight of the students.

With "Precious," Mr. Daniels made instant Oscar history as the first black director of a best picture nominee.

You've probably experienced that unique combination of loss and rage when your computer's hard drive suddenly crashes, erasing years of work files, financial records, and precious photos in an instant.

This is especially true in the mobile world, where cellular network latency and the occasional peak-hour bandwidth bottleneck add precious seconds over the near-instant connectivity we've grown accustomed to.

One essay on the site and in the book, "Don't Carpe Diem," takes issue with outsiders who insist every instant raising children is precious.

How many Matthew Crawleys need to die in "unexpected" car accidents an instant after meeting their precious newborn sons before you realize that you're sort of overdoing it?

The precious vision lasts for only an instant, but you cling to it as you are faced once more with the reflection of your decaying body.

It cannot be otherwise among those masses of Americans who see memory itself as a threat to the precious autonomy to live in the instant.

"In that moment, one of the greatest lessons I've ever learned was how precious life is and how in an instant, it can all go away," he says.

But lingering disputes over precious arable land can turn ugly in an instant.