Example Sentences

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Hospitality is innately altruistic, and the neighborhood restaurant is especially, preciously, precariously so.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2024

"Life's too preciously short to not be bounding for joy and gratitude."

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2023

"This study throws new light on a problem we know preciously little about: the social and political role of women among early complex pre-state societies," García Sanjuán said.

From Reuters • Jul. 6, 2023

After drinking from it and spending eons in deep thought, he realizes that death imbues life with value, whereas, for immortals, “Nothing can occur but once, nothing is preciously in peril of being lost.”

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2021

I hoarded it preciously, but less than two weeks later it became totally worthless.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou