Example sentences for: worth

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

  • It is getting harder to do for the very reasons it is worth doing: It can require years of reporting, which doesn't sit well with the keepers of our buzz-driven publishing culture.

  • As a spur to improvements in the system, given the slow pace of top-down efforts at reform, it seems worth trying out in different ways, but it shouldn't be considered a cure-all, especially for the worst-off schools.

  • She prompts the island's Princess Nausicaa to cajole her father into letting her drive a year's worth of dirty clothes all the way down to the water's edge in a big ox-drawn wagon, to spend the day with her maids washing and drying them on the beach, right where Athena knew she would find the shipwrecked Odysseus.

  • None of us would want judgments formed about our character on the basis of high-school-yearbook pictures, but it is worth noting that the high-school Lewinsky seems fairly heavy and does not look happy.

  • Eliminating racial profiling will make policing more difficult, but the cost is worth bearing because profiling burdens targeted groups, engenders rage against the police, and undercuts the ideal of a colorblind society.


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