Sentence example with the word 'dearness'

dearness

Definition n. the quality possessed by something with a great price or value

Last update: July 17, 2015


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Hence, although wages are painfully low, the cost of production to the manufacturer is relatively high; and it is still further increased by the cost of the raw materials, by the heavy rates of transport owing to the distance from the sea, by the dearness of capital and by the scarcity of fuel.   [Please select]

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Listen to this: the dearness of kings.   [Please select]

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=caro=, dear, beloved; dear one, dearness, high price; =aver ----=, to like.   [Please select]

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Beyond all was the assurance of her dearness to him.   [Please select]

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But he had not dreamed of the dearness of the little face.   [Please select]

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Those who cannot use malachite green on account of its dearness, dye blue with the plant called dyer's weed, and thus obtain a most vivid green.   [Please select]

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As to the first article, namely, of provisions, the scarcity or dearness, though I have mentioned it before, and shall speak of it again, yet I must observe here.   [Please select]

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