Precious has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Although silver is precious, gold is more precious. | |
| 2. | Costume jeweler usually does not work with precious metals and precious stones. | |
| 3. | Your friendship is most precious to me. | |
| 4. | Gold is more precious than iron. | |
| 5. | Gold is more precious than any other metal. | |
| 6. | Nothing is as precious as friendship. | |
| 7. | The one resource more precious than any other was land. | |
| 8. | Nothing is as precious as love. | |
| 9. | Perry obtained precious information from him. | |
| 10. | It was a precious clock his grandmother, who was in the hospital, gave him. |