"precious" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

precious adjetivo

precious + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 130
precious metal • precious stone • precious thing • precious time • precious resource • precious moment • precious second • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 26
(5) resource, asset
Kolokacji: 2
(8) cargo, burden
Kolokacji: 2
(11) water, fluid, liquid, food
Kolokacji: 4
1. precious water = cenna woda precious water
2. precious fluid = cenny płyn precious fluid
3. precious liquid = cenny płyn precious liquid
4. precious food = cenne jedzenie precious food
  • It tore a hole in the dam itself, so that water and precious food slopped over into the river below.
  • We see the prisoners carefully dividing up the precious food.
  • "But you'll be sick and tired of me ruining all your precious food when you have to work so hard for every bit of it."
  • And they assumed anyone coming over the fence was there to steal some of that precious food.
  • Offering my customers healthy, life-giving, precious food is the best way for me to help them.
  • Instead, the opposite occurred, as people were slaughtered by mobs trying to reach the precious food.
  • They consume great amounts of precious food, only to convert it to malodorous waste!
  • Too much of their precious food had gone to feed those consarned pigs.
  • When they see their precious food blasted all over the landscape, they'll think twice about this kind of thing.
  • "We would not be able to justify shipment of such a precious food at this time," Murdoch said.
(12) memory, knowledge
Kolokacji: 2
(15) item, icon, one
Kolokacji: 3
(17) day, opportunity, Bunny
Kolokacji: 3
(19) Love, darling
Kolokacji: 2
(21) Lord, son, word
Kolokacji: 3
(22) egg, seed, fruit, grain
Kolokacji: 4
(23) drop, pearl
Kolokacji: 2
(24) air, fuel, oxygen, oil
Kolokacji: 4
(25) coin, currency, dollar
Kolokacji: 3
(26) herb, spice
Kolokacji: 2
adverbio + precious
Kolokacji: 4
most precious • infinitely precious • overly precious • equally precious
precious + preposición
Kolokacji: 4
precious to • precious in • precious of • precious for

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