prize - use in sentences

Object

  • prise: Big Prizes A top prize for each of the Top 3 players.
  • year: Academic Prizes Each year, top students are honored for their exemplary performance.
  • skill: We take reading and writing for granted, but then it was a highly prized skill.
  • commodity: The skins of jaguars were highly prized commodities, as recorded in the tribute pages of the Codex Mendoza.

Subject

  • collector: Complete examples in good original condition are the most highly prized by collectors.
  • employer: At the same time traditional customer service skills remain highly prized by employers.
  • culture: Rose has a very gentle but strong uplifting & balancing effect and it has been prized by all cultures since the beginning of civilization.

Adjective complement

  • open: First Lee Steele was allowed the freedom of SE7 to make hay on the left as the Addicks were prized open with ease.

Modifying Another Word

  • highly: Our raucous musical evenings are highly prized by the hard of hearing.
  • greatly: Hopton Wood Limestone from Middleton by Wirksworth was greatly prized.
  • especially: Especially prized were his hilarious put downs of Winston Churchill.
  • much: These were much prized for the quality of their wool.
  • particularly: Her love of shape and fine potting mean her ceramics are particularly prized in Japan.
  • so: The whole project of ordered rationality, so prized by the Enlightenment, was judged and found wanting.

Preposition: for

  • century: Prized for centuries by woodwind instrument makers for its tone.

Preposition: by

  • collector: Complete examples in good original condition are the most highly prized by collectors.
  • employer: At the same time traditional customer service skills remain highly prized by employers.
  • culture: Rose has a very gentle but strong uplifting & balancing effect and it has been prized by all cultures since the beginning of civilization.

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