"precious" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He clung on to the second of disbelief, the last, precious instant of' now before it all changed.
- Karl froze for a precious instant as Snake came at him, eyes bugging, chains rattling.
- By leading, he felt that if there was a danger of any kind, he would gain a precious instant of reaction time.
- She took a precious instant to stop and try to yank the shoes off, but she couldn't.
- He could not, would not, believe it for the first precious idle instant.
- For an instant, a precious instant, Vraduir was stunned past rational thought.
- It was a precious instant, a warm helping of reaffirmation after so much cold fear.
- The excitement left Harry Vincent unobserved for a precious instant.
- Vic, forgotten for a precious instant, had a grim chance to go into action.
- I could not think of wasting a single precious instant in delay.
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