Example Sentences

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“We have been cherishing and enjoying Tinslee being home,” Lewis said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2022

But should the point of music ever to have been cherishing the memory of buying something?

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2012

I shut my eyes to the presence of several others because I fancied them to be quiet and incapable of forming bad designs, and they are serpents I have been cherishing in my bosom.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

"That means, then, that I must bid farewell to all the plans that I have been cherishing so long," said he softly.

From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

But this instance shows us that when circumstances compel us to give up something of this kind which we have been cherishing, room is given for a better thing than itself to grow.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus