"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
(12) memory, knowledge
Kolokacji: 2
(15) item, icon, one
Kolokacji: 3
(17) day, opportunity, Bunny
Kolokacji: 3
(19) Love, darling
Kolokacji: 2
1. precious supply = cenny zapas precious supply
2. precious bottle = cenna butelka precious bottle
3. precious box = cenne pudło precious box
4. precious vase = cenny wazon precious vase
  • Tak-ing the precious vase off its lighted stand, he held it out to the stunned Bashkir.
  • At the other end of the room, Korontzis could see the cabinet containing the precious vase.
  • A rich and precious vase found near this cippus is believed to have contained Livilla's ashes.
  • He took my head between his hands carefully, gently, like someone holding a precious vase.
  • Feeling clumsy and awkward, fearful of knocking some precious vase to the floor, Achmed tried to imagine walking on a broken ankle.
  • He placed a hand on her hip, and felt the curve of her waist like the shape of a precious ceramic vase.
  • A charwoman knocked over the precious vase, breaking it into pieces - a few of them identifiable as bits of Mr. Gregory.
  • Since he broke the Elder's precious vase, he was exiled from Harappa.
  • He held her for several seconds after he spoke, then sat her down like a precious vase.
  • One of them, close to the town, contained, along with other Scythian antiquities, the well-known precious vase representing the capture of wild horses.
(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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