Sentence examples for precious pieces from inspiring English sources

"It occurred to me that these objects are precious pieces of our history," Mr. Steinhardt said.

(Visitors are welcome to pick up and try the less precious pieces).

I am chatelaine of a serious china collection of 200 pretty precious pieces.

The loss of precious pieces has prompted the museum to take steps to protect its collections for posterity.

At Nisā the city was expanded, the royal palaces were enlarged, and the royal hypogea (catacombs) were enriched with precious pieces of fine Greco-Iranian art.

It contained, inside a jazzy cover, on precious pieces of butcher's paper, all the surreptitious drawings he had done of camp life.

He and the director, Maria Mileaf, have created a precious piece of theater.

But "A Minister's Wife" seemed a precious piece: either pretentious musical theater or tame quasi-opera; take your pick.

I will now present you with the finest and most precious piece of plate in all my house.

Recently I brought home a small, precious piece of wild sockeye salmon, the first of the season.

She might not have made in onto the stage to collect the precious piece of paper that says "Graduation Certificate", hugging that teacher on the way.