cherished

Example Sentences

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"You are like the wind at daybreak, you are like a cherished vision," he sings in a direct address to the horse, named Rovach.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

“They make me feel less alone,” says Grace, and she and Susanna can both quote from Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” a cherished touchstone of every sensitive adolescent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Cases like Kelver’s expose key contradictions at the heart of our cherished rhetoric of armed self-defense.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2026

Nonetheless, he’s always cherished the joy of playing for the sake of playing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

But slaveholders blamed the violence on a “sinister Northern abolitionist plot to destroy their cherished way of life,” as one historian put it.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis