Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: prized
IPA transcription: [pɹ'aɪzd]
Usage examples
  • His name is honored in every school or college of earth where books are prized.
  • Will the prized treasures of to-day always be the cheap trifles of the day before?
  • He told his men what had been said, and the whole band turned their backs on the camp, and went through the woods to their old haunts where they were known and prized at their true worth.
  • This creature, his most prized possession, San-Lan with the utmost moral callousness ordered to seduce me, urging her to apply without stint and to its fullest extent, her knowledge of evil arts.
  • Every trophy gathered in years of the chase, once perhaps prized, now perhaps forgotten, was brought into evidence, nor could one escape noting each one, and giving to each, for this one night more, the story which belonged to it.
  • So long as they are humanely treated, it is, we may infer, a benefit for them to be commanded; and the contribution their labour makes toward rational life in their betters is the highest dignity they can attain, and should be prized by them as a sufficient privilege.