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 Jordan, Charlotte Brewster

Her dark eyes were for a moment serene because she was treasuring this moment of moonlight and the respite of love against the chances of to-morrow.

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul

There was no way of escape, and thus, as a memorial of Mr. Kelly's singular attachment to the best of Causes and of Queens, Miss Townley was treasuring the likeness of the incomparable Smilinda.

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew