TREASURE in a Sentence

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For TREASURE, below is one of 179 sentences:
THERE comes a time in every rightly-constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

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 Meanings and Examples of TREASURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
treasure
 n.  very valuable things, usually as precious metals, precious stones, or money
 n.  a collection of precious things
Classic Sentence: (147 in 10 pages)
1  Presently he bethought him of a treasure he had and got it out.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  THERE comes a time in every rightly-constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  The men contemplated the treasure awhile in blissful silence.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  Four times he had his hands on that rich treasure and four times it wasted to nothingness in his fingers as sleep forsook him and wakefulness brought back the hard reality of his misfortune.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  Both Injun Joe and the treasure sunk into secondary importance for a moment, and Becky took the chief place in the boy's interest.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  In fact, everything seemed to be drifting just in the right direction, now; the treasure must be still in No.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  "Why, I declare the Shoes look just like my own," said one of the clerks, eying the newly-found treasure, whose hidden powers, even he, sharp as he was, was not able to discover.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
9  Snow-white was married to him, and Rose-red to his brother, and they divided between them the great treasure which the dwarf had gathered together in his cave.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED
10  He fancies he possesses an immense treasure.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
11  This treasure exists, Dantes, and if I have not been allowed to possess it, you will.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
12  This treasure, which may amount to two.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
13  in these caves; the treasure is in the furthest a.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
14  which treasure I bequeath and leave en.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
15  know of the existence of this treasure, which.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
16  "Say, Huck, if we find a treasure here, what you going to do with your share?" "Well, I'll have pie and a glass of soda every day, and I'll go to every circus that comes along."
17  Molokai, Hawaii is still an unspoiled treasure, with no buildings higher than three stories.
18  A treasure trove is a large amount of gold, silver, money, jeweler, or any valuable collection found hidden under ground or in cellar.
19  The greatest treasures are not gold, nor jewels, nor works of art.
20  The library has many art treasures.
21  All the treasures of the earth would not bring back one lost moment.
22  The invaders despoiled the country of all its treasures.
23  The sweetness of sharing a dream made for two is one life's greatest treasures.
24  A FRIEND is a 'gift' if of our heart treasures.
25  And he also put into the hat certain schoolboy treasures of almost inestimable value -- among them a lump of chalk, an India-rubber ball, three fishhooks, and one of that kind of marbles known as a "sure 'nough crystal."
26  He agreed to act as treasurer.
27  Louise Renne, who ran unopposed for city attorney, threw a dim sum party for successful treasurer candidate Susan Leal.
28  After the trial he was reappointed treasurer.
29  A meeting was called for the purpose of appointing a new treasurer.
30  Lydia briefly stated the business in hand, namely to choose a secretary and treasurer for the committee.