Sentence examples for precious to use from inspiring English sources

"A bicycle pedal covered in barnacles, but it's too precious to use".

In the 1970s gas was considered too precious to use; in 1978 America's energy secretary declared that the country's reserves were "gone".

Fallon's precious art department wanted to use the services we peons use every day but the application design was too muddled and messy.

He can't really imagine ever giving up his precious right to use his car-sized slice of macadam.

"Urinetown" was inspired, Kotis has said, by a stay in Paris during which he found himself short of money and was faced one afternoon with having to decide whether to spend precious francs to use the pay facilities in the Luxembourg Gardens or wait until dinnertime.

The characterization of PALB2 as a breast cancer susceptibility gene and subsequent research that has refined our understanding of the prevalence and penetrance of heritable mutations in PALB2 offers a precious opportunity to use the data as a model and develop modes of translation that would be appropriate for the anticipated volume of imminent new information.

The injury-prone receiver Percy Harvin has become the porcelain tea service that is too precious to actually use: he often leaves the game in critical situations so that he will be available for hypothetical even-more-critical situations that never come.

There are precious few ways to use this full HD content except for direct TV playback but, god bless us, we'll die trying.

On the second day, some of the men used the water to wash themselves, but it was too precious to continue to use that way.

(Four seats subject to appointment by Gov. Jerry Brown are currently vacant). Californians get what they pay for: The members don't seem to have any conception of the breadth of their authority, and precious little inclination to use it.

In some villages, flour is considered too precious to be used in bread; it lasts longer if mixed with water and cooked as a soup.