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

“If you do these restoration projects too preciously, then it looks almost like a replica,” said Mergenthaler, who also oversaw Herzog & de Meuron’s restoration of the Park Avenue Armory.

From New York Times • May 17, 2023

But her excitement popped as she looked at the carefully preserved page and remembered how the king had had it on his person, carefully and preciously kept in the pouch around his neck.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin