"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
(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
1. precious air = cenne powietrze precious air
2. precious fuel = cenne paliwo precious fuel
4. precious oil = cenny olej precious oil
  • Just a few drops of these precious essential oils are sufficient.
  • That night, when the cabbage dish was served, we could actually see the traces of precious oil floating in the sauce!
  • Its Achilles' heel is the very business that carries the precious oil around the world - the shipping industry.
  • Secondly, the oil companies aren't about to turn their precious oil over to a phantom fleet that doesn't even exist.
  • "The vessel has received the drops of precious oil?"
  • Obviously, not all the drops of precious oil had been collected.
  • When the nuts were young they gave delicious water; when old, a precious oil or a sweet milk.
  • A: So you burned up all the precious oil while hating yourselves.
  • Both of these make another ritual: a task for buying precious oil from a gardener, and bringing it to this temple.
  • The young girl began D pour the precious oil upon the feet of the carpenter.
(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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