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Example sentences for "worth"

Lexicographically close words:
worste; worsted; worsteds; wort; worter; worthe; worthely; worthi; worthie; worthier
  1. Pray, Sir, be persuaded, he's worth your owning.

  2. I am afraid your Heart's not worth the keeping, since you took no better notice where you dispos'd of it.

  3. When I have made an Interest in her, and find her worth communicating, I will be just upon Honour-- Go, go.

  4. Ay, if I be alive, and your mind hold, and your dinner worth the eating.

  5. Him and his worth and our great need of him, You have right well conceited.

  6. As long as you can send it to the treasury and get a gold dollar in exchange, it is worth a dollar.

  7. Because the borough returned members to the House of Commons, it became worth while for the crown to intrigue with the municipal government, with the ultimate object of influencing parliamentary elections.

  8. The custom of regulating business and politics and the affairs of life generally by voluntary but binding agreements is something without which we moderns would not think life worth living.

  9. It is hardly necessary to add that it is sometimes worth much to the student to know where valuable information may be obtained, even when it is not practicable to make immediate use of it.

  10. Congress must assemble at least once in every year, and the constitution appoints the first Monday in December for the time of meeting; but Congress can, if worth while, enact a law changing the time.

  11. It is this exchangeableness that makes it worth a dollar.

  12. The system was thus more democratic than in Virginia; and in this connection it is worth while to observe that parochial libraries and free schools were established as early as 1712, much earlier than in Virginia.

  13. The ultimate standard of worth is personal worth, and the only progress that is worth striving after, the only acquisition that is truly good and enduring, is the growth of the soul.

  14. This is a practice proper to great men, and a great man may be worth several immaculate historians.

  15. We may find it worth our while," he said, "and there is no reason why we should not.

  16. If we should ever return it will be time enough to look up the mines, but where their product is so easily obtained as from these people, it seems hardly worth while to work for.

  17. Life without an air ship was not worth the living; but with it, I could answer Mr. Mallock's question without thought or hesitation.

  18. The man may be worth a million, but I doubt it.

  19. I do not pretend to account for what I saw in those rock-bound halls; if this were fiction I would doubtless do so; but as it is, I can only offer the suggestions already made, be they worth what they may.

  20. A handful of gold more or less isn't worth a thought.

  21. It is of the first water; of perfect skin and orient; the most delicate texture, and without speck or flaw, and is worth at the lowest estimate one hundred pounds.

  22. By the values here mentioned alone I was worth more than a million dollars.

  23. Skirting the opening of the fiord, Torrence asked if I thought it worth while to pay a visit to this historic city of the Norwegians--Trondhjem being one of their most important and beautiful towns.

  24. Sailors are generally cranky, you know, and I thought I would talk with him a little just to get his ideas, and see if it would be worth our while to risk the venture, with the possibility of becoming the owner of his property.

  25. The voyage had sharpened our appetites, and we ate a dollar's worth of food in an alarmingly short space of time, an extravagance we agreed should not be repeated.

  26. Enough gold quartz to have had any material effect upon the buoyancy of the vessel would probably have been worth more than a million dollars, and with salvation so near ahead, we were inclined to make every effort to save it all.

  27. That her soul did ache made it worth while.

  28. To play the game, for herself and her sons, this was the one thing worth while.

  29. You're worth how much--not surely more than one wee bit of gold For as you know the Saviour King for thirty bits was sold.

  30. But disappointed he became When all the teachers said This boy who plays so queerly Will never rank ahead; As a musician of true worth He cannot hold his own And in Apollo's circle He never will be known.

  31. As always, a dramatic story, well worth reading or listening to.

  32. It's true enough; you ain't worth your salt on the station.

  33. They afterward amended the clause in question by authorizing employees "to strike for any cause not unlawful at common law," which modification leads into many legal fogs which it is hardly worth while to enter in this place.

  34. And there was a steamer a day each way that it was as much as your life was worth to put your foot into.

  35. As a mere business proposition: Is your glass of beer, your bottle of wine, your high-ball, or your cocktail worth such a price?

  36. I had always cherished a notion that because a Turk could have four wives, and didn't think much of my chances for the world to come, and was somewhat free in the use of antidotes to human life, his morality wasn't worth talking about.

  37. They are worth a million times more than these Johnnies who pick up the Roman alphabet and a few half-baked ideas about what we are pleased to call progress.

  38. Were not its interests ours, the girls who lived there our friends, and the life we lived the only one worth living?

  39. Some girls get presents every day--at least every week--but my sort of girl only gets a present worth considering on her birthday.

  40. Its central table alone was worth the greatest admiration.

  41. Now, apple-dumplings are supposed to be very good things, but I cannot say that Hannah's recipe was worth preserving.

  42. She put two crisp Bank of England notes, worth five pounds each, into my hand.

  43. I always know you had no spirit worth speaking of," said Hannah.

  44. And for the sake of the supper it's worth while," said Charley.

  45. All day long I had been wearing my travelling-boots; it did not seem worth while to take them off; nobody had given me a thought.

  46. Yes, when it is worth looking at," she responded.

  47. Cara's assurance that you are well and comfortable is worth a luncheon to me, which is just the thing I am generally most in want of, for we dine at six now.

  48. I am very sensitive to the merits of checks for fifty guineas, but I am still more sensitive to that cordial appreciation which is a guarantee to me that my work was worth doing for its own sake.

  49. Forget me if you like, you cannot oblige me to forget you; and the active is worth twice of the passive all the world over!

  50. Do you think it worth my while to buy the Prospective for the sake of Wicksteed's review--is there anything new in it?

  51. The chapter on Philosophy and Theology is worth reading.

  52. The week has really yielded nothing worth telling you.

  53. I had no idea that Richardson was worth so much.

  54. The pictures are wretched, the casts not much better--indeed, I remember nothing which seemed intrinsically worth looking at.

  55. What is anything worth until it is uttered?

  56. I was not disappointed; it is worth doing once, especially as we got out before the sermon.

  57. I shall not at all regret leaving here; the season is beginning to be rather sombre, though the glorious chestnuts here are still worth looking at half the day.

  58. In the meantime, the most pressing business is to make them worth republishing.

  59. Were there no such thing as Divine Service in the true sense of the word, then, indeed it would scarcely be worth while to quarrel with its misapplication.

  60. Better men than he had preached other people's sermons and never thought it worth mentioning.

  61. But the thing is that I know what is worth knowing.

  62. At least," resumed Polwarth, "I have this advantage over some, that I cannot be fooled with the fancy that this poor miserable body of mine is worth thinking of beside the smallest suspicion of duty.

  63. I suppose that the immortality itself should be worth possessing.

  64. Suppose a thing were in itself not worth having," he said, "would it be any great enhancement of it as a gift to add the assurance that the possession of it was eternal!

  65. The truth is, he had less self-conceit than a mortal's usual share, and was not yet possessed of any opinions interesting enough to himself to seem worth defending with any approach to vivacity.

  66. When it thus manifests itself, I find no refuge but the offering of it back to him who thought it worth making.

  67. Does it follow that life is worth having because a man would like to have it for ever?

  68. If there be no God, I feel assured that existence is and could be but a chaos of contradictions, whence can emerge nothing worthy to be called a truth, nothing worth living for.

  69. But don't you think," he continued, "it is hardly worth while to be indignant with them?

  70. Tell me then, would life be worth having on any and every possible condition?

  71. Such tactics are not worth a single drop of sweat of the workingmen, since they are not only contradictory to the basic principles of trade unionism, but even useless and impractical.

  72. What reporters do not know about Anarchists, and especially about your publisher, is not worth knowing.

  73. The feathers of the wild birds are worth a third more than those of the tame ones, as they are stronger.

  74. Yes, they are worth a few dollars apiece, except in the case of old lions, who are apt to become mangy, and these are not worth skinning.

  75. We have killed eight of them, but their skins will not be worth anything like so much as the cattle they have killed; however, it is well that it is no worse.

  76. But you have seen so much fighting in this country, during the last two years, that your opinion is certainly worth something.

  77. A full-grown cock and two hens, the stock with which most small settlers begin ostrich-farming, are worth from 200 pounds to pounds.

  78. No, Dick, it would not be worth cumbering ourselves with.

  79. An ostrich of about three or four months old," Mr Harvey replied, "is worth from 30 pounds to 50 pounds.

  80. In fifteen years the first 200 acres will be fit to fell, and the property will be worth a very large sum of money.

  81. The small, dark-coloured feathers are worth from sixpence to one shilling apiece.

  82. Would it not just be jolly to find a diamond as big as a pigeon's egg and worth about twenty thousand pounds?

  83. He has a magnificent pair of tusks, and ivory sells so high that they would be worth a good deal of trouble and some risk to get.

  84. HALF'-DOLL'AR, a silver coin of the United States, worth 50 cents.

  85. Italian coin, worth a franc, and divisible into 100 centesimi:--pl.

  86. Scotch coin, with a lion on the obverse, worth 74 shillings Scotch (James VI.

  87. Falconidae: a military standard carrying the figure of an eagle: a gold coin of the United States, worth ten dollars.

  88. If I thought that worth notice, young fellow, I'd make you take that word back," said Mr Solomon sternly.

  89. Why, my figgering and writing ain't even worth talking about with a pen, though I am good with chalk, but even I know the road to London.

  90. If you throw it in, the apple will be bruised--bruised apples are worth very little in the market, and soon decay.

  91. He finds the work too hard for him grinding his oats, for he's got hardly any teeth worth anything.

  92. Because old branches bear small fruit, young branches bear large, and large fruit is worth more than twice as much as small.

  93. These desolate remains are trophies high 5 Of more than martial courage in the breast Of peaceful civic virtue:[A] they attest Thy matchless worth to all posterity.

  94. I have heard a story of him which is worth the telling.

  95. We've spent so much of our time at the hospital with Larry that we haven't got more than about ten cents' worth done since the night of the accident.

  96. If the rest of the show is half as good as their part it will be worth more than the price of admission.

  97. Your chances of getting by didn't seem to be worth a plugged nickel.

  98. I've got an idea in my noddle right now that's worth half a dozen of yours.

  99. Oh, their opinions aren't worth worrying about," said Herb, complacently.

  100. There's nothing on the island worth seeing, I believe.

  101. Nothing worth seeing seems to escape his eye, while all that would delight others to know is portrayed in a rich, graphic style.

  102. The view presented from the top of the hill crowning the location of the Grotto of Calypso is well worth mentioning, overlooking the Bay of Melleha and most of the island of Gozo, with Comino and Malta in the distance.

  103. The finer the book the more clearly it shows how worth while every individual is.

  104. It is worth while taking some trouble to learn to read well.

  105. All girls who have had anything to do with the care of babies know how very delightful babies are, and how worth while it is to take care of them and to win their affection.

  106. To form a group of this kind successfully the girl members require to have kindly impulses and enthusiasm, a willingness to work and play together, and the wish to be useful and to do something worth doing.

  107. Books that we should choose, therefore, are those which make us feel that life is worth living, that people are worth while, and which keep us in love with the highest things in life.

  108. Her wages will not be high, but she will be paid for her first week, although it is hardly likely that her work at first will be worth the money she receives for it.

  109. The factory finds it worth while to train beginners, and it does so in the hope that they will become capable operators who will be in their places regularly.

  110. No one was ever so clever as to be able to learn to read in one day, yet we all know how well worth while it is to be able to read.

  111. But in many good establishments it is held that the work of a beginner is very soon worth something.

  112. Any book that separates us, or turns us away, from the highest, happiest things is not worth the time which we might spend in reading it.

  113. What can she do that is worth payment, and where can she find someone who is willing to buy what she has to sell?

  114. Thus home becomes the best and happiest placein the world and is worth all we can give in time, energy and love to make it so.

  115. Shun books which make one feel that life is not worth living.

  116. She should know what is interesting and worth writing about.

  117. He asked whether it could possibly be worth while to quarrel with these customers for the sake of a very few dollars?

  118. It is literal fact, and therefore only is it worth telling.

  119. Collectors have risked it, they say, before and since, but never assuredly unless quite certain that the prize was worth a deadly hazard.

  120. His accumulated spoil of plants, well worth shipping, began to be as much as he could transport.

  121. Ericsson found some new plants in their country, and many old well worth collecting.

  122. Not forgetting the giant, he thought it worth while to take a 'real English gun' with him, though doubtless the maiden was a wife long since, and her husband might ask for a more useful present.

  123. Don Hilario was to broach the business, but first Oversluys would satisfy himself that the orchids were worth negotiation.

  124. It is hardly worth while to quote the list of seedlings obtained by Mr. Mead through crossing plants of the same genus.

  125. She was raving mad for a while, but such a prize was worth nursing.

  126. They did not agree about the shape, or colour, or anything else relating to it; but such a plant must be well worth collecting anyhow.

  127. Off he set full gallop, for the risk of a broken neck is not worth counting when vengeful Indians are on one's trail.

  128. I think it no exaggeration to say that a strong specimen would be worth its weight in diamonds if a little one--for the most enthusiastic of millionaires seem to lose courage when biddings go beyond a certain sum.

  129. It is no longer worth while to send out collectors of Odontoglossum crispum; natives of the country gather such as they find and store them until the opportunity occurs to sell a dozen or so.

  130. They have a story, not worth repeating, to account for it.

  131. Some have not flowered yet, and therefore have received no name; but even of these it is worth while to give the parentage, seeing that there is no official record of hybridisation as yet.

  132. We have another house devoted mainly to Cymbidium, in which they have been planted out for some years, with results worth noting.

  133. It would be as right to express, in the same inverted and foolish comparison, the worth of "those delicate sisters, the Pleiades.

  134. I have never had the worth of the frames out of those portraits.

  135. Of the whole gallery of the great I felt there was not one worth his wall room.

  136. A few wholesome women are worth scores of men in getting at sailors--or for that matter in getting at anybody else, and the importance of getting more of them attached to the work should not be overlooked.

  137. Over and over again during that toilsome day men risked their lives to save a few pounds' worth of gear; indeed, it was a day of brave deeds.

  138. This box of yours is better worth looking at than I first supposed.

  139. But if you should have reason to suppose that there is something in it besides nonsense, you may think it worth your while to make inquiries of me.

  140. He is very, very old, with white hair and no teeth worth showing, and he has outlived his wits--outlived nearly everything except his fondness for his son at Peshawar.

  141. This diamond is worth a good deal more than a thousand pounds.

  142. The deficit is worth a reference; it is for what they call a cool sum, Frank.

  143. Cassilis is a good man," said Northmour; "worth ten.

  144. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a few hundred pounds.

  145. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what to do with the money.

  146. He told better fortunes when he was allowed half a bottle of whisky; but the things which he invented on the opium were quite worth the money.

  147. I certainly can do so if it is worth anything.

  148. I wonder how long it will be before anything worth happening does happen!

  149. The heiress of all the Montanaros in a black lace gown worth twopence!

  150. They even humored certain superstitious terrors to which this repulsive person was subject--terrors into the nature of which I, as an advanced freethinker, never thought it worth my while to inquire.


  151. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "worth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accent; account; advantage; approbation; approval; assessed; avail; behalf; behoof; benefit; benevolence; benignity; caliber; class; cogency; concern; consequence; consideration; convenience; credit; desert; dignity; distinction; emphasis; endowed; esteem; estimation; excellence; expedience; face; fairness; favor; fortune; good; grace; healthiness; holding; honor; import; importance; interest; kindness; landed; landholding; mark; materiality; merit; moment; note; paramountcy; percentage; pleasantness; point; precedence; preeminence; price; primacy; priority; prized; profit; propertied; property; quality; rate; rated; regard; resource; respect; riches; service; significance; soundness; stature; status; stress; substance; superiority; supremacy; use; usefulness; validity; value; valued; virtue; wealth; weight; wholeness; worth


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    worth about; worth anything; worth doing; worth giving; worth having; worth living; worth more; worth notice; worth noting; worth quoting; worth reading; worth recording; worth seeing; worth something; worth while; worthy father; worthy friend; worthy knight; worthy lord