held dear
Example Sentences
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To even think about having the one project I held dear taken away from me?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
But the roustabout Hal’s dawning maturity costs him the companion he once held dear.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
The holiday may be getting more modern, but millennia-old traditions are still held dear in China and other countries.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 5, 2024
That’s even if it was “perhaps reprehensible in terms of the principles held dear by the United Nations and the international community as a whole.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
As a boy, he’d regarded this place as the physical representation of everything he held dear, everything he valued.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
