dearer

Example Sentences

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"Of course Gaza is dearer than here, but there, there is no home left, nothing."

From Barron's • May 9, 2026

Just as tomato prices begin cooling down, onions have gotten dearer by a quarter since June in the domestic market.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2023

“The freedom I had before the money was paid was dearer to me,” Ms. Jacobs wrote.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2023

“She will be dearer than my children because she will keep the memory alive of her father, mother and siblings.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2023

I was a bride, promenading down the center aisle of San Juan Evangelista twenty years back to marry the man with whom I would have our dear children, dearer than my life.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez