precious gift

collocation in English

meaningsofpreciousandgift

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precious
adjective
uk
/ˈpreʃ.əs/us
/ˈpreʃ.əs/
of great value because of being rare, expensive, ...
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gift
noun
uk
/ɡɪft/us
/ɡɪft/
a present or something that ...
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(Definition ofpreciousandgiftfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprecious gift

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It is apreciousgiftthat withers away if it is not used.
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On other occasions nurses stepped inside my world and touched the depth of my person with their presence and caring - always apreciousgift.
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To do otherwise would be to waste apreciousgift.
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This freedom to choose seemed such apreciousgift, an opportunity to involve one's inner purposes in a life's work, a gift that must not be squandered.
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Waiting awakens you to the truth of the human condition: that life is apreciousgiftthat is finite and must be lived to the fullest and cherished every moment.
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A morepreciousgiftis surely hardly imaginable.
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It is the mostpreciousgiftthat we can confer on anyone who does not possess it.
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It is apreciousgiftgiven to us by the war, and we must keep it.
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They gave them as apreciousgift, a priceless heritage to this country of ours and to the world's freedom.
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If our proposals are accepted, and pass into law, they will confer upon the public apreciousgiftof greater rights and privileges.
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In doing so, they would make the small contribution to help those people in our society who have lost thepreciousgiftof sight.
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Education is the mostpreciousgiftwe can give our children.
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The important thing is to develop what is the mostpreciousgiftin life, an active interest in some aspect of life.
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He has thepreciousgiftof youth on his side.
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Full employment has been the mostpreciousgiftof a devastating war, because full employment is not merely a means to higher production, it is an end in itself.
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One year later it obtains its mostpreciousgift.
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The stuffed animal is apreciousgiftfrom his beloved grandmother.
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Taken aback, many of those present demand to know why he is destroying thepreciousgift.
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He enjoyed in full measure thatpreciousgiftof winning and holding the love of many.
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A bottle of a good homemade slivovica can be apreciousgift, since it can not be bought.
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