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Example sentences for "care for"

  • You seem to care for so little, and yet you rove about a distinct race.

  • He was the personification of selfishness; and as he loved and cared for no one, so did no one love or care for him.

  • Well, he's to be had by any woman who can get him to care for her a bit, if she likes to set herself to catch him the right way.

  • I shall let him slip through my fingers if I don't mind, much as I care for 'n!

  • You've got him to care for 'ee a bit, 'nation if you han't!

  • Nature's logic was too horrid for him to care for.

  • In a few moments Arabella replied in a curiously low, hungry tone of latent sensuousness: "I've got him to care for me: yes!

  • And if I say that I care for you, don't you believe me?

  • It is not a question that we ask one another nowadays; but I have read that in your day, even among the cultured class, there were some who did not care for music.

  • As for love nowadays, one of our authors says that the vacuum left in the minds of men and women by the absence of care for one's livelihood has been entirely taken up by the tender passion.

  • I cannot imagine what he sees in me to care for, though he is evidently ensnared by my charms.

  • But I was only joking; I don't care for you," she said, looking round for an outlet.

  • My cherished one, I have been annoying you purposely because you show by your anger that you have not ceased to care for me.

  • Carol herself had the baby, a larger house to care for, all the telephone calls for Kennicott when he was away; and she read everything, while Vida was satisfied with newspaper headlines.

  • Her ambition was to get to bed at nine; her strongest emotion was resentment over rising at half-past six to care for Hugh.

  • To pay respect to; to treat as something of peculiar value, sanctity, or the like; to care for; to esteem.

  • To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard.

  • To take notice of; to regard with special attention; to regard as worthy of special consideration; hence, to care for; to heed.

  • I do know why I care for people, and I think I'm hardly ever wrong.

  • I do not think you need to be assured once more of my feelings; but, as you are leaving so soon, I felt that I could not let you go without asking you to tell me--have I any reason to hope that you will ever come to care for me?

  • I don't care for striking: I can't take the trouble to raise my hand!

  • No--I have to scold them every evening for their late rambles: but they don't care for me.

  • I care for nothing in comparison with papa.

  • There is a numerous class of people in this great metropolis who seem not to possess a single friend, and whom nobody appears to care for.

  • She is not beautiful enough to be the heroine of a romance, neither has she done any absurd thing; she has only supported her mother when she had no one else to care for her.

  • The rest of the neighbors, though kindly disposed, had their own families to care for, and could do very little for others.

  • Yes, mother; no decent person would insult me and I don't care for others.

  • When I was all that I am now, nobody out of my own class seemed to care for me.

  • When my books were all written, no one who had read the manuscripts seemed to care for them.

  • The most it meant was that it might bring some money, and little enough did he care for money.

  • He had no care for himself; but, with all the remaining power of the honest heart, stunned so long and now awaking to be broken, he honoured and blessed her.

  • He was convinced that she did not care for him, and that she had read of his death with a sense of relief.

  • I have told him I have ceased to care for him, and that it is better we should both be free.

  • How do you know she doesn't care for you?

  • Quite apart from selfish reasons, he had no right to marry a girl whom he had ceased to care for.

  • Yes; Hortense didn't care for Charley in the least, and never would.

  • I don't care for him in the least, though I used to when we were boys.

  • I suppose you don't care for him, though I can see how you might in a way.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "care for" 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:
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