Sentence examples for worthwhile to him from inspiring English sources

The ash wood is valuable as sawed lumber, and it's also wonderful firewood… My son does woodworking, and so it's worthwhile to him to have supplies of sawed boards laid up.

And mainstream news outlets, which Mr. Siegel is otherwise delighted to assail (his love-hate relationship with The New York Times is particularly intense), suddenly look worthwhile to him by virtue of their real, earned authority.

What's amazing is that it took him years of trial and error to stumble upon that little solution, but when he found it — and when he scored his first applause break on that joke — all that time and effort felt worthwhile to him.

But just as critical is that they failed to sign anyone worthwhile to replace him on the bench.

I didn't think it would happen, but I felt it would be worthwhile to give him an incentive.

The fellow currently living on his father's boat used to come into the office, but it turned out not to be worthwhile to make him do so, considering that his eccentricities (like refusing to wear shoes) drove other people crazy.

He leads up to the famous line about the quarrel by identifying the addressees of his critique as the "praisers of Homer who say that this poet educated Greece, and that in the management and education of human affairs it is worthwhile to take him up for study and for living, by arranging one's whole life according to this poet" (606e1 5).

But as long as he keeps denying his past misdeeds, it's worthwhile to keep calling him on them.

"I knew Lemon had a strong arm, and once I realized he was not going to hit with consistency as an outfielder, I thought it would be worthwhile to look at him as a pitcher," Boudreau later wrote.

In England, it was thought worthwhile to appoint a consul and to conclude a treaty with him.

Swinton never built a set (for, as he said, the possible financial reward would not be enough to make it worthwhile), but unknown to him such work had already begun in Russia.