Definition: 1. Rare and worth a lot of money. 2. Of high worth or cost. 3. Obviously contrived to charm. 4. Characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for.
Use 'precious' in a sentence:
1. Time is precious to me.
2. In college, time is scarce, and consequently, very precious.
3. He had a precious gold ring.
4. Precious few homebuyers will notice any reduction in their monthly repayments.
5. Every step of the journey is precious.
6. It was a precious moment.
7. Water is becoming an increasingly precious resource.
8. This medal was very precious to my parents.
9. Don't idle away your precious time.
10. He got through without a mistake--flawless and precious triumph.
11. You're wasting precious time!
12. Spring rain is as precious as oil.
13. We should seize the precious chance.
14. You're precious.
15. You are not a precious miracle.
16. When a thing is scarce, it is precious.
17. With geological maps, books, and atlases you can find out all the proven sites of precious minerals.
18. There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.
19. It is very precious.
20. Theismann's precious information came at a price, however.
21. Husbanding precious resources was part of rural life.
22. Her family's support is particularly precious to Josie.
23. Beauty coming from within is more precious.
24. There's precious little to do in this town.
25. Night hours in spring are extremely precious.
26. After four months in foreign parts, every hour at home was precious.
27. Actors, he decided, were too precious and neurotic.
28. Speed is precious in war.
29. A family break allows you to spend precious time together.
30. Mary left her most precious possession — a small bookcase — to her niece.
31. At present, she is the only feminine writing which China discovered, is in the world the extremely rare and precious culture remains, has the very high academic value.
32. Marble is a precious stone.
33. You don't care about anything but yourself and your precious face.
34. Some of our all too precious time is being stolen.
35. But at the moment is the most precious moment.
36. With geological maps, books and atlases you can find out all the proven sites of precious minerals.
37. One thousand precious words.
38. Spaceships are very precious and great.
39. A prodigal who returns is more precious than gold.
40. Traditional culture is a precious treasure for a nation.
41. Rain in spring is as precious as oil.
42. There is a crown set with precious jewels in his safe.
43. The crown was set with precious jewels ─ diamonds, rubies and emeralds.
44. The crown was set with precious jewels—diamonds, rubies and emeralds.
45. Volunteers formed a human chain to rescue precious items from the burning house.
46. Water is a precious commodity that is often taken for granted in the West.
47. I didn't touch your precious car!
48. Clean water is a precious commodity in that part of the world.
49. What I'd give to be a fly on the wall when Davis finds out what's happened to his precious cargo.
50. The banks have had precious little to celebrate recently.
51. There was precious little about the cricket to animate the crowd.
