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Examples of worthwhile in a Sentence
The money is for a worthwhile cause.
Seeing my children's joy made building the tree house all worthwhile.
Is it worthwhile to try to fix my computer?
Recent Examples of worthwhile from the Web
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This approach of finding a Band-Aid for legacy vulnerabilities that likely aren't going to be solved another way is worthwhile, says Robert Graham, CEO of the threat intelligence and penetration testing firm Errata Security.
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There are plenty of worthwhile documentaries about music festivals—Woodstock and Gimme Shelter come to mind, of course—but Hollywood has no clue what to do with contemporary music festival culture in its movies.
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All of the books and websites and doctors and nurses and yoga teachers and childbirth instructors insisted that breastfeeding my child for at least a year if not longer was unquestionably worthwhile, and not just for the baby.
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The question, really, is whether that effort is put towards a worthwhile goal, never mind a successful one.
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General manager Nancy Benussi’s eclectic wine list, which ranges from Majorca to British bubblies, is always worthwhile.
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Getting a handle on your credit score is worthwhile, because there are vast differences in the interest rates individuals are offered, based almost entirely on their credit scores.
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Here again, the strange logic of nuclear warfare raises its head: Planners realized that any missile defense of cities had to be perfect to be worthwhile, while any defense of missile silos didn’t have to be.
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Beyond existing, a person needs to be acknowledged and given the conditions to be worthwhile.
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First Known Use of worthwhile
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WORTHWHILE Defined for English Language Learners
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: worth doing or getting : good enough, important enough, etc., to be worth spending time, effort, or money on
WORTHWHILE Defined for Kids
: being worth the time spent or effort used
- a worthwhile trip
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