Sentence examples for some precious from inspiring English sources

This week's stockmarket rally has given the politicians some precious time.

With my sievelike memory, this means some precious moments of my past are now hazy.

The field, under the floodlights, was gleaming green, like some precious object in a box.

"That extra movement cost you some precious time, Al," he said, sounding almost professorial.

He also withheld some precious items: a number of unpublished manuscripts, voluminous correspondence, scrapbooks, family photographs.

"Lynda and I had courted there, so we just wished them some precious moments," Johnson said.

Each showed me some precious relic, and each offered me a keepsake.

The couple's house had tin ceilings and some precious details, but it needed work.

We're not just building some precious jewel box out in the forest".

If he were in Japan, he'd be valued as some precious, lacquered treasure".

The suitcases held some precious examples of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century bead-and-cloth appliqué work.