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worthy - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- praise: We shall work hard to ensure we remain worthy of this praise in years to come.
- mention: There are several places worthy of mention: Rubber Soul: This is a lively bar, bang in the middle of the street.
- preservation: Such designations reflect both visual, historic and cultural qualities which are considered worthy of preservation and enhancement.
- consideration: There are also practical issues here which are worthy of consideration.
- emulation: I do not set up my conduct as worthy of emulation.
- admiration: He's been a terrific servant to his club and to still be producing the goods at his age is worthy of admiration.
Modifying Another Word
- eminently: Don't you find yourself eminently worthy of forgiveness?
Infinitive complement
- suffer: They were happy to have been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for speaking about Jesus.
Modifies a noun
- successor: They are the more than worthy successors to Churchill's " Few " .
- winner: Chris was the worthy winner of the AAA title.
- recipient: You can nominate yourself or a colleague who you feel to be a worthy recipient!
- opponent: Captain Tennant proved a worthy opponent evading all these attacks.
- sequel: It's a worthy sequel to a frankly brilliant game.
- cause: He is no stranger to doing his bit for a worthy cause.
Used with adjective complement
- deem: Why are even his poorly sung out-takes deemed worthy of commercial release?
- consider: The archive, overall, is still considered worthy of further study.
- seem: In a supposedly chaotic world it provides human beings with something like standards for orientation, and that alone seems worthy of approval.
- think: The EFA trophy was thought worthy of a trial run.
- judge: Here we would observe an oral tradition community as it enters new material into its oral store of recollections judged worthy of preservation.
- feel: The vocals are as cool as can be, the music and feel worthy of a dance around the sunset with your friends.
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