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Example sentences for "worth while"

  • When it has got quiet I may take up the New Portfolio again, and consider whether it is worth while to open it consider whether it is worth while to open it.

  • I did not mention him, Miss Vincent," he answered, "nor do I think it worth while to name him.

  • Whether it be prudent or worth while to try this method you must certainly be a better judge than I am.

  • There were others ready to be sworn, if the Council for the crown had thought it worth while to have bro’t them forward, that they also could relate what this man had told them, viz.

  • I wish it had been or still might be publishd in London if you have seen it & think it worth while, subject entirely to your Correction and Amendment.

  • It seemed that Mr. Henley, like most old bachelors, regretted not having married; though he thought that his habits had all become too confirmed, to make it worth while to attempt a change.

  • To be first among equals--that's worth while.

  • If he's worth while I should think you'd hire him," remarked Jane shrewdly.

  • I appreciate that women are rottenly brought up and have everything to learn--everything that's worth while if one is to live comfortably and growingly.

  • It may, therefore, be worth while to consider the causes, which make us almost universally fall into such evident contradictions, as well as the means by which we endeavour to conceal them.

  • If my opinions are so valueless to you that you dismiss them like those of a troublesome child, I wonder you think it worth while to try and keep up appearances about me.

  • It will be worth while, first of all, to consider whether color exists.

  • Therefore it will be worth while to study the history of the marriage in question.

  • But the only thing is, is it worth while, Jennechka?

  • But the other gives him a look and says, sort of thoughtfully: 'Is it worth while?

  • The recognition that beauty is the only thing in life that is worth while.

  • The courage to kick out of one's life everything that isn't worth while; and so on.

  • It isn't worth while to discuss me at all as if I had a soul, is it?

  • It is worth while to discuss and to realize what real poverty means.

  • The man content with small means does his best work, devotes his energies to that which is worth while, and not to acquiring that which has no value.

  • He said: "It is to my mother, to her good principles, that I owe my success and all I have that is worth while.

  • That passing sand means the passing of your chances for making your life worth while.

  • To exercise in this way the brain that is given to us is to lead the life of a MAN, a life of self-control, a life that is worth while, that leads to something and helps forward the improvement of the race.

  • It would be worth while to live to see such a spectacle.

  • Was it worth while to live, and live in uncertainty, with no purpose but to look at such a society?

  • The Tiber, too, does not need them; and though it is far from the river to those roads, it is worth while to walk one road more to see the 'Great Apostle.

  • But if it is a question of the ruin of something as great, for example, as the domus transitoria, would it be worth while for us to bring offerings to avert that ruin?

  • I produced these articles, though how he knew that I had them with me I cannot tell, nor did I think it worth while to inquire.

  • Now, as I did not think it worth while to contradict his nonsense so far as I was concerned personally, I went off on this latter point.

  • Well, He's keener about it than you; and I'll bet you haven't thought it worth while to thank Him.

  • You think it worth while to organise three?

  • When God chooses,' he answered gravely; 'and don't you ever think but that it is worth while.

  • There is much to do, and it is worth while, if only to keep one from getting useless and lazy.

  • Was it worth while to stir up all the foul mud again in order to beat the beaten?

  • It is worth while to know exactly what took place at this juncture.

  • It may be worth while to note again that the Judge himself admitted that the evidence on some of the counts was of "the slenderest kind"; but, when backed by his prejudiced summing up, it was more than sufficient for the jury.

  • It made it worth while to learn to read--there would be something to read.

  • The first thing that attracts attention is its use of words, and since words lie at the root of all literature it is worth while to stop for them for a moment.

  • It made it worth while to write--there would be some one to read what was written.

  • He could make a shoe, or build a house, or doctor a cow; but it never seemed to him, in this brief existence, worth while to do any of these things.

  • The editorial comments frequently are able enough, but is it worth while keeping an expensive mill going to grind chaff?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "worth while" 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:
    active power; agricultural education; being answered; light will; material wealth; natural growth; not speak; our political; referendum held; secret doctrine; this hour; vegetable food; what happened; whose right; worth about; worth having; worth more; worth noting; worth quoting; worth reading; worth recording; worth seeing; worth something; worth while; worthy father; worthy knight