How to Use care in a Sentence

care

1 of 2 noun
  • She looks as if all the cares of the world are on her shoulders.
  • She wrote a book about car care.
  • She knows a lot about the care and feeding of horses.
  • With proper care, the machine should last a decade or more.
  • She is an expert on skin care.
  • She used care in selecting a doctor for her son.
  • We need to provide poor people with better dental care.
  • The children have inadequate medical care and little formal education.
  • Set aside the rake and take care of all those leaves this fall with ease.
    Lesley Kennedy, CNN Underscored, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Go and get your self-care on at https://www.alexandrawinbush.com/online-store.
    Jasmine Grant, Essence, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Be sure to keep your knives sharp and take care of your cast iron.
    Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2020
  • With the proper care, it’s bound to last you a long time.
    Esmé Epstein, Health, 16 June 2023
  • Plant a seed, take good care of it, and the results will come.
    Lubo Smid, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Take good care of these, and the leather will look even better with age.
    Madeline Fass, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Still not sure how to take care of your cast iron skillet?
    Bon Appetit, 24 Oct. 2017
  • At the end of the day, most things can be taken care of with time and money.
    Desmond Conner, courant.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • The part about being wealthy should take care of itself.
    oregonlive, 12 July 2020
  • Not all women who have kids also have the means to take care of them.
    Erin Coulehan, Glamour, 4 May 2022
  • Their wives had to work to take care of their families.
    Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Their new job is to take care of the players’ dead bodies.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 23 Aug. 2022
  • It was borne out of the idea of skin care and art as self-expression.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2023
  • What’s your form of self-care when dealing with it all?
    Ngozi Ekeledo, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
  • Your daughter seems to have abandoned her child to your care.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Satta asked her to take care of her daughter and the baby.
    Washington Post, 6 May 2022
  • This goes for cats or any critter that needs to be taken care of.
    Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Guests can cast off their cares at the spa and Turkish hammam.
    Chris Leadbeater, National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Beck said the school has a garden, and students with autism can learn how to take care of it.
    Kristen Griffith, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Once the schools shut down, Wells needed to stay home to take care of his kids.
    al, 3 July 2020
  • She was last seen in Oakland, in the care of her babysitters.
    Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2021
  • For them, tech gets in the way of daily functioning and self-care.
    Martha Irvine, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2018
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care

2 of 2 verb
  • I didn't know you cared.
  • I wouldn't care to be in your shoes right now.
  • He doesn't care if he gets fired.
  • I care what happens to her.
  • He'll show the photos to anyone who cares to see them.
  • I'm going for a walk. Would you care to join me?
  • More factors influenced her decision than she cares to admit.
  • On Valentine's Day, send her flowers to show that you care.
  • The men don’t care whether the women know the word of God.
    Rena Gross, Billboard, 11 July 2018
  • The rest of the world did not much notice, or care to bring him to book.
    The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The fish didn’t care whether or not the kingdom had failed, of course.
    Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2020
  • To know a time and a place this well is to care about it and its people deeply.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • Williams didn’t care what any lawyers had to say about the matter.
    oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2023
  • His daughters did their best to care for him in his home.
    Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The smoke will go away but will people still care about the unhoused?
    oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2021
  • No one cares about the schmo of the week, people care about Mike.
    Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Aug. 2023
  • That takes us to the next thing that people care about—impact.
    Ira Bedzow, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Okay, but babies tend not to care about things like that.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • He was found lying on the floor and could no longer care for himself.
    David Begnaud, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The other jumpers didn’t care how good he was supposed to be.
    David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 13 June 2020
  • Frankly, Botswana doesn't care if any tourist sees the big five.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2021
  • No one else seems to care to be thoughtful to take good photos of me.
    Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Fresh paint inside and out will help your home look well cared for.
    Carpenter Realtors, Indianapolis Star, 7 May 2018
  • Long doesn’t care about the trappings that go with being a head coach.
    oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Though hold-outs still balk at the thought of a man in rosy hues, pink doesn’t care.
    Todd Plummer, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Eva Mendes is a homebody and doesn't care who knows it.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Oct. 2020
  • We were groomed from a young age to care a little less about humans.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Schedule that time to care for your mind, body and spirit.
    John Duffy, CNN, 21 May 2021
  • America does not want us here and does not care for us.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The climate crisis doesn’t care if your state is red or blue.
    Lindsey Rupp, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023

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