treasure
noun
wealth or riches stored or accumulated, especially in the form of precious metals, money, jewels, or plate.
was treasuring
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past progressiveof treasure.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“Now that it was becoming rarer for him, he was treasuring those experiences.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
Maybe hindsight has clouded my experience, but I do remember feeling like she was treasuring her time with him — that she knew he might not be around that much longer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2016
He was treasuring a ringlet of Marguerite's—although he doubted its genuineness, with a vague suspicion that it might be one of the latest wisps of fashion.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
Honor Bright wanted no better evidence of the fact that he was heart-whole, though she continued to wonder whose was the photograph he was treasuring so sentimentally.
From Banked Fires by E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
A boy in my wards, with a baby face, showed me a beautiful silver, enamelled and engraved watch he got off a "Yewlan"; he was treasuring it in his belt "to take home to Mother."
From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous
