Example Sentences

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“I pray that God will help me to discharge worthily this heavy task that has been laid upon me so early in my life,” the new queen said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2022

Aurelius cautions his reader to resist becoming bitter or mournful, and instead to think of each grievance as an opportunity: “To bear this worthily is good fortune.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2018

Never mind all that, declares B’Ellana Duquesne’s Mama in Philip Dawkins’s worthily eye-opening if ultimately formulaic comedy-drama, “Charm.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2017

Isabel Bayrakdarian's good looks, however, are worthily matched by her voice and artistry.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2011

But as a writer, never was the modern Mephistopheles, "the spirit that denieth," more worthily represented than by Balzac.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret