"precious" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They could both tell that she was breathing harder, using up her precious supply of air that much more quickly.
- At night the cities are still dark, as the Government tries to conserve its precious supply of energy.
- "Have some salt," he said, handing her their precious supply.
- She stared at him in silence, as if she had exhausted a small, precious supply of argument.
- But no, you wanted the comfort of a soft bed, the warmth of a fire, over our precious supplies!
- While they downed more and more of their precious supply of water.
- Celebratory meals were prepared, with precious supplies and livestock used up.
- A few minutes without that precious supply of bloodborne oxygen and your heart tissue begins to die.
- Towing yet another flotilla of precious supplies to the front.
- Villagers are often reluctant to use precious supplies of firewood for such purposes.
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