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.
  • This is your swoon-worthy first evening.
    — Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • These splurge-worthy sheets made it on our list of the best sheets.
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 2026
  • All of them that are worthy of a call-up, and even a few that aren’t.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
  • But is fiber candy a worthy source of fiber?
    — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 4 June 2026
  • Many feel those in charge are not always worthy of trust.
    — Jessica Bartlett — Boston Globe, STAT, 21 May 2026
  • The chase for it is worthy, but grace must follow.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • There are plenty of places with worthy slices where there are no lines.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 June 2026
  • These actions are not news worthy.
    — Chick Pritchard, Hartford Courant, 13 Feb. 2026
  • While there’s no place like home, these are all a few worthy close contenders.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2025
  • To wit, the brand is really worthy of all its hype.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 27 May 2026
  • This set of four glasses is worthy of any great hotel lounge or bar.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 17 Dec. 2022
  • There is nothing that seems to be worthy of flagging in the prompt.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • But which of his sci-fi movies were truly worthy of his talent?
    — Janey Tracey, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Strapping on a bra is among the most sigh-worthy daily tasks.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Of course there are more sites that are worthy of your attention.
    — Ocasio Media, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
  • But on my show alone, there are three guys who are Emmy-worthy.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2023
  • This shag is worthy of any rockstar, but with a softer feel.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
  • There couldn’t be a more worthy reason to come home, Mays said.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Here's how to make bakery-worthy cookies on your own.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
  • All worthy contenders, for sure.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • All worthy contenders, for sure.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But plenty of love and care needs to go into this crust for it to be deemed worthy.
    — Amber Love Bond, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The social media-savvy tend to flock to post-worthy shots at peak bloom.
    — Kara Finnstrom, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • And, perhaps, more worthy of the respect for which a poor farm girl once longed.
    — Sarah Smarsh, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • What’s missing, though, is a center worthy of the frame.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 May 2026
  • Here then is a serendipitous tale worthy of a day at the races or a night at the opera.
    — Charlotte Observer, 4 June 2026
  • The plunge raised more than $4,000 to help fund that worthy cause.
    — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026

worthy

2 of 2 noun
  • But gifts for kids that age can be tricky, and finding one worthy of a graduation can be even tougher.
    — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 9 May 2022
  • This is shameful even by the standards of public discourse established by those three worthies.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 17 May 2017
  • Keeping old aircraft flight-worthy has been a challenge across the military services.
    — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Yet there are several beaches in Oslo worthy of attention if the weather is kind.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The vast majority don’t make it onto the Vatican’s list of those worthy of belief.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Lee thinks its worthy of a national television audience — maybe someday soon.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Last month Mr Duterte announced a committee of politicians and worthies to feed ideas to Congress.
    — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Harris showed why top-seeded Philadelphia might have its own Big 3 worthy of winning a championship.
    — Dan Gelston, ajc, 23 May 2021
  • Was Polanski’s film worthy of inclusion as a competition title?
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 29 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
  • 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
  • Unfortunately, the Celtics stayed consistent only in producing third-quarter bleeding worthy of triage.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022
  • The only two other worthy of consideration at 5 are Tyrese Haliburton and Killian Hayes.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 25 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Stargate project—endorsed and promoted at every level of authority, from the White House to the governor of Michigan to the local worthies of Saline—had tested her faith in democracy.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026

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