Example Sentences

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Critics fear developers will prize profits over people.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2019

I will crave that sweet exhaustion because I will prize the closeness even more when it’s gone.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2013

Devotees of the mixed metaphor will prize: "Riding on this illusion you hurled yourself against the windmills of your chosen dragon."

From Time Magazine Archive

He said again, “Yet give it me; for I cannot live without seeing Snowdrop, and though she is dead, I will prize and honor her as my beloved.”

From Favorite Fairy Tales The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women by Various

Doubtless the very oldest scholars in the school will prize such a letter as much, if not even more.

From Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers by Wells, Amos R.