precious

How To Use precious In A Sentence

• There's precious little on contemporary cinema screens that means a great deal to my life. Times, Sunday Times
• Another category of vessels and flatware was distinguished by the use of precious stones or exotic materials, such as coral, mother-of-pearl, or coconut shell.
• In mining for precious stones such as diamonds, a method for accurately filtering the gems you want from the surrounding rock and soil is worth its weight in gold.
• Agates were apparently highly valued by the ancient Egyptians for their lapidary use and were mounted into gold with other precious stones such as lapis and emeralds.
• Of course the bulk of those opulent knick-knacks manufactured for the Carolingian and Ottonian Emperors, and now to be seen at Aachen, are as beastly as anything else that is made simply to be precious. Art
• If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered. 
• Rather than giving to those countries in most need, O'Neill said, ‘We have an obligation to plant our resources where they will yield growth, rather than squandering precious seeds in unfertile soil.’
• Sometimes a merchant would stop by, looking for gemstones or precious metals that couldn't be found anywhere else.
• In an age of change, unchangingness becomes more precious to people than we perhaps understand, even in ourselves. Times, Sunday Times
• It gleams from the hues of the shell and the precious stone.