Words similar to minding

Example sentences for: minding

How can you use “minding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The researchers found that turning to someone for even modest help (like minding a child for an hour) had the cost of later demands for a return of the favor and that this cost was nearly intolerable.
Mailer recognized that this reaction was not very mature, but Mailer had bigger things to worry about than minding his literary manners.
My wife and I were minding our own business in an unregulated apartment in the rapidly gentrifying East Village when we returned from work one day to a letter informing us that our already (to non-New Yorkers) alarming rent of $1,950 was going up $700.
Bale, a wonderfully sensitive actor who here looks like Watson with an Adam's apple, can only stare open-mouthed, helpless, knowing she's his destiny and not even much minding that it will take him back to Metroland.
Almost everyone lavishes praise on the book, not minding the absurdities they find in the plot (such as the emergence of a 92-year-old trillionaire who befriends the brooding man).