In a sentence
Six example sentences with worthwhile, each labelled with its topic.
The detour added four hours of bad road, but the empty beach at the end made it worthwhile.
Travel
Volunteers who found their tasks worthwhile stayed twice as long as those paid the same amount for dull work.
Psychology
A road is worthwhile only when the hours it saves drivers outweigh what the concrete and the land actually cost.
Economics
The extra warm-up felt tedious, but it proved worthwhile when the whole team finished the season without a strain.
Fitness
The founders decided a week of customer interviews was worthwhile before writing a single line of code.
Startups
Reviewers judged the experiment worthwhile even if it failed, since either result would settle a long argument.
Science
Study worthwhile until you keep it
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