How to Use worthy in a Sentence

worthy

1 of 2 adjective

• She is a worthy successor to the mayor.
• Your donations will be going to a worthy cause.
• I consider him a worthy opponent.
• Save leftovers for as splurge-worthy brunch the next day.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2022
• There is nothing that seems to be worthy of flagging in the prompt.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
• Strapping on a bra is among the most sigh-worthy daily tasks.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 23 Jan. 2023
• And, perhaps, more worthy of the respect for which a poor farm girl once longed.
  — Sarah Smarsh, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• The type who was more likely to climb the ranks and therefore, more worthy of schmoozing.
  — Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2022
• How to pick the most worthy All-Star highlight this season?
  — Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2023
• The district has made praise-worthy strides toward that end.
  — oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2022
• But on my show alone, there are three guys who are Emmy-worthy.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2023
• The prolonged wait and lack of updates have become meme-worthy at this point.
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 22 Feb. 2023
• There, a worthy opponent — and a chance to make a New Year’s Six bowl — will be waiting.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
• Of course there are more sites that are worthy of your attention.
  — Ocasio Media, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
• The shades, the packaging, and the colour payoff are all obsession-worthy.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• Paik’s art had a let’s-try-it-on spirit that made even his follies worthy.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 Jan. 2023
• If Magic and Shaq got four hours apiece, Bill Russell is worthy of this 3.5 hours, and more.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2023
• The samples were sufficient to convince me the cake was worthy.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2024
• But which of his sci-fi movies were truly worthy of his talent?
  — Janey Tracey, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• This set of four glasses is worthy of any great hotel lounge or bar.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 17 Dec. 2022
• That means your fireplace needs to be a worthy centerpiece for your room.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 30 Aug. 2023
• That's a worthy goal for future filmmakers to strive for.
  — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
• This is a worthy goal, and one that Washington should support.
  — Nic Carter, Fortune Crypto, 23 July 2023
• The causes are worthy, the course is daunting – almost 300 miles across a stretch of the Pacific Ocean in a large canoe.
  — María Teresa Hernández, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Dec. 2022
• Whether rain or shine or wind, Augusta proved to be a worthy, relevant test for the best players in the world.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
• There was a time when joining the Power 5 ranks was a worthy ambition in which to aspire.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
• That said, there isn’t a show that is more meme-worthy and delivers more belly laughs per minute.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2022
• Check out these four tips filled with Insta-worthy ideas for planning a trip this fall with your besties.
  — Noel Cody, Essence, 22 Sep. 2022
• Take this 13-piece cookware set by Tools of the Trade, for example: The stainless steel pots and pans are both useful and swoon-worthy.
  — Sarah Byron, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2022
• Dueling strikes in 2023 by the actors' and writers' guilds, while worthy, threw a wrench into film production and distribution.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024

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worthy

2 of 2 noun

• Last month Mr Duterte announced a committee of politicians and worthies to feed ideas to Congress.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• Dykes was 19-30 in four seasons, not exactly a record worthy of pining to keep someone who wanted to go.
  — Marcus Thompson Ii, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2017
• This is shameful even by the standards of public discourse established by those three worthies.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 17 May 2017
• Yet there are several beaches in Oslo worthy of attention if the weather is kind.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• Keeping old aircraft flight-worthy has been a challenge across the military services.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
• Onstage for two and a half hours, his Aubrey ruminated insightfully on the lives of English worthies of his Elizabethan age.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• Harris showed why top-seeded Philadelphia might have its own Big 3 worthy of winning a championship.
  — Dan Gelston, ajc, 23 May 2021
• Our worthies apparently wanted to punish Trump for his remarks about Muslims.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2017
• The only two other worthy of consideration at 5 are Tyrese Haliburton and Killian Hayes.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 25 Sep. 2020
• Lee thinks its worthy of a national television audience — maybe someday soon.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2020
• In France, an Academy of 40 grey-haired worthies pronounces on what is and is not proper French and terminology committees in government ministries busily coin new words.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• While vandals have taken matters into their own hands, politicians are busy debating the Italian explorer’s past and future as a national hero worthy of so many markers.
  — Barbara Demick, latimes.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• There are far too many individual posters in Cyberpunk worthy of analysis, but just taking a handful highlights the exploitative nature of Night City’s world.
  — Stacey Henley, Wired, 1 Feb. 2021
• It was originally financed by contributions from the tobacco industry as those worthies saw their beggars day coming down in the federal courts.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 5 Oct. 2016
• And the radical separation of theology and politics (which at its highest aims at a common good worthy of free and responsible human beings made in the image and likeness of God) is untenable.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
• Was Polanski’s film worthy of inclusion as a competition title?
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Delivering audiences a gruesomely poetic death worthy of the Shakespearean influences from the original Thor film, Hiddleston deserves to keep that death.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 26 Apr. 2018
• Wall Street worthies, retiring boomers, and recent college graduates who may account for some of those departing millennials are among those whom various publications have described as hightailing it out of Jersey.
  — Kevin Riordan, Philly.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• The scene-stealing maneuver was one worthy of Ritter's onscreen counterpart, the indomitable and ever-irreverent Jessica Jones: strong, aspirational, and wholly authentic.
  — Jessica Jones, Vogue, 29 May 2019
• Last month Mr Duterte announced a committee of politicians and worthies to feed ideas to Congress.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• Dykes was 19-30 in four seasons, not exactly a record worthy of pining to keep someone who wanted to go.
  — Marcus Thompson Ii, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2017
• This is shameful even by the standards of public discourse established by those three worthies.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 17 May 2017
• Yet there are several beaches in Oslo worthy of attention if the weather is kind.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• Keeping old aircraft flight-worthy has been a challenge across the military services.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
• Onstage for two and a half hours, his Aubrey ruminated insightfully on the lives of English worthies of his Elizabethan age.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• Harris showed why top-seeded Philadelphia might have its own Big 3 worthy of winning a championship.
  — Dan Gelston, ajc, 23 May 2021
• Our worthies apparently wanted to punish Trump for his remarks about Muslims.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2017
• The only two other worthy of consideration at 5 are Tyrese Haliburton and Killian Hayes.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 25 Sep. 2020
• Lee thinks its worthy of a national television audience — maybe someday soon.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2020
• In France, an Academy of 40 grey-haired worthies pronounces on what is and is not proper French and terminology committees in government ministries busily coin new words.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017

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