dearer

Example Sentences

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"You can give away lots of points, but if you're £5 dearer than your competitor, people will swap anyway."

From BBC • May 10, 2026

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

From Barron's • May 9, 2026

But in 2023, artists also took another step in reclaiming aspects of our humanity and holding them a little dearer.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2023

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

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 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