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Example sentences for "not worth"

  • Old Lady Loveday going to be married to a young Fellow that is not worth a Groat.

  • For surely, all the knights you have are not worth, as you well know, so much as a single chamber-maid.

  • If I do not carry away thy head with me, I am not worth a counterfeit besant.

  • Surely, the escort is not worth much," he says, "and I am going to lead you off at once.

  • And you needn't get so angry with me; I am not worth it.

  • Really our clock is not worth a penny,' she said, turning to it and attempting to start the pendulum.

  • Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.

  • Warsaw Union is not worth speaking of; but this other is a Treaty highly remarkable to the reader,--and to Friedrich was almost infinitely so, when he came to get wind of it long after.

  • Life here is not worth living if there is not another.

  • Perhaps in their eagerness to paint it black enough, they did contradict themselves, and try to make out that it was a barren soil, not worth conquering.

  • A tame Lady Delacour would be a sorry animal, not worth looking at.

  • He spoke very rudely and improperly; but it is not worth while to think of what he said, or what he meant.

  • The surgeon will be here in a few days, and it is not worth while to make any change.

  • A Government that cannot be maintained without the sacrifice of those principles upon which all good governments are founded, is not worth preserving.

  • Any other Union is not worth the name; is not worth preserving.

  • The Senator from Michigan thinks the Government is not worth a rush until it shall have drawn a little blood.

  • I want you to write to her quite at once," he continued; "since you seem to think that it is not worth while to take the trouble of a journey to London.

  • They're not worth a farthing," Edith answered, contemptuously.

  • Lady Helena has been as a mother to you; it isn't worth while offending her for me--I'm not worth it.

  • But these were only trifling spots on the sun, not worth a second thought.

  • I would be, dear, but it is not worth while.

  • Life's not worth living, and that's the truth," Carelessly caroled the golden youth.

  • Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

  • If I don’t dare kill Smerdyakov now, life is not worth living!

  • I am not worth it, I am taking it from you, I am a burden on you,’ that’s what her angel eyes try to express.

  • And if the sufferings of children go to swell the sum of sufferings which was necessary to pay for truth, then I protest that the truth is not worth such a price.

  • It’s not worth it, because those tears are unatoned for.

  • Misfortunes are this lottery-world's sad blanks; Presents, in my opinion, not worth thanks.

  • I know but little of him, and even that is not worth knowing.

  • To crack a baculine joke over their sconces would involve an expense which the worthy philosophers were not worth.

  • Oh, that's not worth thanking me for," she said, touching his long white fingers for an instant.

  • He buys so badly, you know; gives a hundred pounds for what's not worth twenty.

  • Oh, no, it's not worth while," said the Reb.

  • I declare it is not worth a man's while consulting you about anything.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not worth" 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:
    answered promptly; not enough; not feel; not give; not given; not intend; not like; not made; not make; not mistaken; not necessary; not right; not say; not speak; not there; not very; not without; noted that; nothing much; nothing was; nothing wrong; notwithstanding his; notwithstanding this; private house; really only; tall pine