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Example sentences for "little value"

  • Old niggers and prime fellows were then of little value; now it is different.

  • He has had several names, both surname and Christian; names are but of little value to a slave.

  • Prior to their arrival I had seen but two birds the entire winter.

  • The eggs were about 9 inches above water at this time, although the water's depth changed constantly with every rainfall, and five days later the outer rim of the nest was only 2 inches above water level.

  • Its head up, watching me, both wings were extended to the side, flapping feebly.

  • In France, in the twelfth century, the skins of native animals were considered as of little value; but the Spanish and Italian were highly prized.

  • Conterfeil is a metal of little value, formed by additions and colouring substances, so that it resembles gold or silver, as an image, or anything counterfeited, does its archetype.

  • Trees of little value, like the poplar or birch, appear first, because their seeds are light and are carried a considerable distance by the wind.

  • There are large areas in this country thus denuded, and instead of a forest we have a scrubby growth of bushes that are of little value to anybody.

  • A slow growing tree with wood of little value, being brittle, light, and difficult to work, as it has a crooked grain and is liable to splinter.

  • Splice or scarf joint; used in framing, occasionally; of little value to boys.

  • The former part of this proposition has been so fully established by a writer of great power of thought--though I fear his practical conclusions will be found of little value--that it is hardly necessary to urge it.

  • It also sustains the views entertained by Southern slaveholders, that emancipation, unaccompanied by the colonization of the slaves, could be of little value to the blacks, while it would entail a ruinous burden upon the whites.

  • Occasionally planted in the parks and gardens of the northern states and of Europe, but short-lived in cultivation and of little value as an ornamental tree.

  • Occasionally planted as an ornamental tree in the northern United States and in northern Europe, but of little value in cultivation.

  • The manuscripts of these latter ages, before the invention of printing, are by far the most numerous, but they are also the most incorrect, and generally of little value in the eyes of critics.

  • The profane authors, except some relating to French history, were in general of little value in our sight.

  • As, however, the greater part are of little value, from the inaccessible nature of the country, I shall only particularize a few kinds.

  • North from the countries of these lords is Besar, a country of little value, but its chief was independent, and was called Raja.

  • The knowledge of the actual motions of the heavenly bodies Socrates considers as of little value.

  • The miscellaneous pieces which he published in 1710 are of little value, and have long been forgotten.

  • In eastern Tennessee there were considerable quantities of red cedar brake that were for years considered of little value.

  • The wood is necessarily of little value, because of the small size of trees.

  • The tree is of so little value that it does not interest the lumberman.

  • Formerly the wood was of so little value that it was cheaper to leave it in the forest than to take it out.

  • The executive of the American republic is about ready to give up the country, as of little value to the nation.

  • The paper, by this means, became of little value to its patrons and the country, and soon getting involved in its financial affairs, it was sold and lost financially to the original proprietors.

  • Testimony like this is of little value in such a case.

  • Defn: A kind of grass (Nardus stricta) of little value, found in Europe and Asia.

  • Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.

  • American herring (Dorosoma cepedianum) resembling the shad, but of little value.

  • Defn: To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.

  • This precedent, then, can be of little value in establishing an important rule in the dispensation of national bounties.

  • He has never lived with Suttle, but he is intelligent, reads and writes, is weak in his injured head, and therefore of little value, and liable to be sold and abused.

  • It has been said that they were originally privileges or concessions extorted from the king, and, though expedient in a monarchy, are of little value in a republic.

  • Dry pastures, especially on calcareous soil, and of little value.

  • It is a mountain-and moor-grass of little value.

  • It is easily recognised by its sharply bent “knees,” and is of little value (Fig.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little value" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little ahead; little amused; little beaten; little bell; little child; little cinnamon; little cold; little cottage; little difficulty; little disappointed; little frightened; little further; little giant; little girls; little hamlet; little lower; little minced; little practice; little reflection; little sign; little space; little stiffly; little west; little wonder; looking south; whole family