Dearer

Bruno's football trophies will be dearer to him than his own children until they earn football trophies of their own, which, by the principles of vicarious parenting, Bruno will consider his. In fact, all of the football trophies Bruno considers his are actually his children's.

Gasoline only gets dearer.

I hold you ever dearer.

There are some friends who are dearer to me than others.

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

She would have admitted that she liked Anne--nay, that she was very fond of Anne. But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything else on earth.

Cheaper wine is sometimes better than dearer.

Day by day she became dearer to the prince; he loved her as one loves a good, sweet child, but it never entered his head to make her his queen.

"Am I not dearer to you than any of them?" the little mermaid's eyes seemed to say when he took her in his arms and kissed her beautiful brow.

I give to a person while another is dearer to me, for fear that he might be thrown on his face in the Fire by Allah.