"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
(25) coin, currency, dollar
Kolokacji: 3
1. precious coin = cenna moneta precious coin
  • Now that's kind of you, dearie, but who would pay their precious coin to watch an overblown fool like me prance about the stage?
  • This would handle the matter without costing her precious coins.
  • Personal connections are the most precious coin of city politics, and there was nothing nefarious about Mr. Ickes's involvement.
  • Their pregame nerves jingled around the clubhouse like precious coins in a worn pocket.
  • Without argument Shmuel Hacohen took from his left pocket the precious coin.
  • With each round, the bardling saw with a shudder, more and more of his precious coins were added to the pot.
  • He felt too insecure about the future to squander one precious coin.
  • Wilson actually smiled, fleetingly, as if a grin from him were precious coin and he tightly held the purse strings.
  • Did we buy anything worth having with the precious coin we paid?
  • The thick domed crusts, with their deeply fluted edges, were the coppery gold of precious coins.
2. precious dollar = cenny dolar precious dollar
(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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