Sentence examples for precious strips from inspiring English sources

Afterwards, as usual, he rewarded the spectators for their support with his sweatbands, leaving a pair of middle-aged women with the two most precious strips of towelling they will ever own.

London First wants to see "mixed mode" at Heathrow, with both runways used for landings and take-offs - a much more efficient use of the two precious strips of concrete.

FOR yogis, few accessories are as ubiquitous as the yoga mat — that precious strip of padding that serves as a cushion, a territory marker and even a rolled-up status symbol, conveying one's membership in the yoga tribe.

Mr. Clark's sexually precious subjects strip for the camera; Mr. Weinberger's don elaborate, armorlike, hand-customized outfits as binding as straightjackets.

"Increased development has stripped away precious buffer zones that once filtered our pollutants before they reached our waterways.

But Japanese scholars have provided some entertaining authenticity certificates and inscriptions, categorizing the steel strips as "especially precious" or "extremely wondrous".

Just since last fall, at least seven salesmen in the city were attacked and stripped of their precious goods.

For years the price of cork had been increasing and the quality declining as the cork oaks were stripped of their precious bark too frequently.

Instead, Vick, who appeared slightly nervous, spoke for several minutes without a prepared text and offered his first full apology for his connection to a dogfighting ring that will probably put him in jail for at least a year and strip him of precious time in the N.F.L. at the height of his career.

MAJURO, Marshall Islands -- A few yards from the crashing waves of the Pacific, on a precariously narrow strip of land, precious rainwater pools on the runway of the Marshall Islands' main airport.

"There are very few airstrips in these areas, and the strips and airspace are precious to us," he said.