Use value in a sentence
Sentences starting with value
- Value of this Strait-jacket. [5]
Sentences ending with value
- We are overpowered with a mass of undigested intelligence, collected for the mast part without regard to value. [4]
- Each, as it were, had been tagged with a particular value. [9]
- My arms were well fastened down, and I was tied about till I must have looked like a bale of living goods of no great value. [11]
- The genuine as well as the false paper money which flooded Moscow lost its value. [2]
- It is the weight of this heaviest of minerals, and not its lovely crystals, that gives it value. [4]
- Naturally, I say, we ought by the time of middle life to come to a conception of what sort of things are of most value. [4]
- But, as it was, their relations always remained somewhat formal, and Chase never felt quite at ease under a chief whom he could not understand, and whose character and powers he never learned to esteem at their true value. [7]
- But while I was sick, Adler's things had been sold and scattered, all except a few old letters, and some odds and ends of no value. [5]
- He was, indeed, very reluctant to sell any part of the land at any price; and indeed--this reluctance was justifiable when one considers how constantly and how greatly the property is rising in value. [5]
- Before I get to the higgledy-piggledy point, as Mr. Howells suggested I do, I want to thank you, gentlemen, for this very high honor you are doing me, and I am quite competent to estimate it at its value. [5]
Short sentences using value
- His money's value was gone. [5]
- The cat's value was augmenting. [5]
- Value, uncut, $50,000 to $70,000. [5]
- Time is of no value. [4]
- The war had its value. [11]
- I value your esteem. [10]
Sentences containing value two or more times
- There is a twofold value in this system: it gives membership a high value in the eyes of the applicant; and at the same time the requirements exacted enable Mrs. Eddy to keep him out if she has doubts about his value to her. [5]
- All day in turn M. Loisel and M. Rossignol sat in the office and received that which represented one-fortieth of the value of each man's goods, estate, and wealth--the fortieth value of a woodsawyer's cottage, or a widow's garden. [11]
- He respected a thing only for its real value, and its intrinsic value was as clear to him as the market value. [11]
- As he poured out a glass of water, however, the thought stung him that the nature of the success and its value depended on the nature of the love and its value. [11]
- The only value it possesses, for even a moment, is the spiritual value back of it: remove that end and it is at once worthless--like the hat. [5]
- The material value has no relation to the value each sets upon that which is his own. [11]
More example sentences with the word value in them
- Then you value your place in heaven very cheap, for I am sure you can, with the offer I make, get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' work. [7]
- Your experience and your convictions are made the reader's; and to an author, at least, they have a value and an interest quite unusual. [14]
- Oh, nothing that you would value, maybe. [5]
- Promise me, as you value me as an ally, that you will not attempt his life. [10]
- I have given you the estimate of the value of a single developed mine. [5]
- He will tell you that scientific training has a value independent of all the special knowledge acquired. [3]
- I do think you set too high a value on success. [9]
- But at seventy years old I find that memory of peculiar value to me. [5]
- The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. [5]
- In the first year of their marriage he used to consult her about all his schemes, and value her keen understanding. [4]
- He pronounced that, word "civil" exquisitely, giving equal value to both syllables. [9]
- Blithe young Barbara, whose voice and beauty she knew how to value, could bring new life and brightness into the great, far too silent house. [10]
- If the judges who awarded the prize agreed with the verdict of the grammateus, he must accustom himself to value his own work higher, perhaps even above that of Myrtilus. [10]
- The extreme friendliness which pervades many of them gives them a value which I rate very highly. [6]
- And this contribution, which I desire to be understood to mean when I speak of literature, is precisely the thing of most value in the lives of the majority of men, whether they are aware of it or not. [4]
- All in all, whenever he thought of this pair, he felt like the lover of art who entrusts the finest gem in his collection to a rich man who knows not how to prize its real value, and puts it in the wrong place. [10]
- We pass by what would be of inestimable value to us, and pack our memories with the most trivial odds and ends that never by any chance; under any circumstances whatsoever, could be of the slightest use to any one. [5]
- You will ask, what value could this scheme have, since the secrets of the confessional are sacred and cannot be revealed? [5]
- The alternate sections were to be given for the purpose of constructing roads, and the reserved sections were to be enhanced in value in consequence. [7]
- His positive instructions were full of value, but the spirit in which he taught inspired that loyal love of truth which lies at the bottom of all real excellence. [3]
- And then Hicks went on, with a serious air, "Colonel, if you register a letter, it means that it is of value, doesn't it? [5]
- Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. [6]
- In our days we have learned the value of combination. [5]
- His characteristic answer was: "I place no value on these forms unless they depend upon and express the inner self. [10]
- The stolen property was then easily recovered, and restored to the owner on the payment of one fourth of its value, which was given to the thief. [10]
- The crowing hen was of more value than the silent hen, provided she crowed with discretion; and she was likely to be a favorite, and not at all to come to some bad end. [4]
- His real diamond was in danger of being exchanged for a stone, whose value he did not know. [10]
- It was Artemus Ward who first suspected the value of Mark Twain's gifts, and urged him to some more important use of them. [5]
- A man of war, he knows the value of peas. [4]
- I suppose she wanted to impress me with the value of the prize I've drawn, dear. [4]
- It was Sir Walter that made every gentleman in the South a Major or a Colonel, or a General or a Judge, before the war; and it was he, also, that made these gentlemen value these bogus decorations. [5]
- There's not a vowel in it with a definite value, and not a consonant that you can hitch anything to. [5]
- It was Monsieur Vigo returning from Vincennes, but he had been first to St. Louis by reason of the value he set upon his head. [9]
- I set a very high value upon it now. [5]
- The various and varying opinions entertained about the quality and value of his work do not require notice here. [4]
- My profit is various in kind and degree; but the feature of it which I value most is the zest which that early experience has given to my later reading. [5]
- What of true value, what of peace and security was contained in her present existence? [9]
- So it has value, but "No. [5]
- She knew the value, amid new circumstances, of a person long known and trusted. [10]
- Tradition had its value when it did not deteriorate into superstition, into the mechanical, automatic transmission characteristic of the mediaeval Church, for the very suggestion of which Peter had rebuked Simon in Samaria. [9]
- His only remaining value was to the moralist, who might perchance make something out of him. [4]
- But I still value this thinker as an honest, virile, and brilliantly gifted seeker after truth. [10]
- But I shall value them, all valueless as they are, for the love that doth bestow them. [5]
- The people don't value the vote, they know nothing about the real problems. [9]
- Money had less value than ever in her eyes. [9]
- What is the value of this vast accumulation of higher learning, what is its point of contact with the mass of humanity, that toils and eats and sleeps and reproduces itself and dies, generation after generation, in an unvarying round, on an unvarying level? [4]
- I know the value of these things, for I know human nature. [5]
- You knew the value of the gem. [10]
- Whatever be the value of fame, he has it in his possession, and is not willing to have it dimmed or lost. [14]
- Fluctuations in the value of currency are always injurious, and to reduce these fluctuations to the lowest possible point will always be a leading purpose in wise legislation. [7]
- He cites the value of Casanova's memories, and the confessions of Rousseau. [5]
- That was the value of an idea that the day would come when the Cape to Cairo Railway would be built. [5]
- I did not value my life, as you know well, for it has been flung into the midst of dangers for Egypt's sake, how often! [11]
- But if you value my desire, we shall not have seen each other for the last time, though my double is undoubtedly a different person from the one I supposed. [10]
- Of what real value is it? [5]
- Much of its value is gone already. [7]
- Olive-oil has its value for polishing steel, but butter is the right thing for roasting and frying; so that's enough! [10]
- Ye give a value for all loss in age, When feebled eyes search for forgotten springs; Ye fan the breeze that turns the moulded page, And carry back the soul to ardent things. [11]
- People who get up in the world by service to others--through letters, or art, or science--may have their modest little misgivings as to their social value, but people that rise by money--especially if their gains are sudden--never have. [8]
- We of the United States lead the world in beautiful paper-money; and when I exchanged my crisp, handsome greenbacks for the dirty, flimsy, ill-executed notes of the Dominion, at a dead loss of value, I could not be reconciled to the transaction. [4]
- The present occupants understood quite well the value of a background: the house swarmed with servants--retainers, one might say. [4]
- He would have understood a torrent of words--to him that would have regulated the true value of the situation; but this disdainful composure embarrassed him. [11]
- He could not understand the value or significance of any word or deed taken separately. [2]
- Mr. Curry owned two thirds of it--and he said that he sold it out for twenty-five hundred dollars in cash, and an old plug horse that ate up his market value in hay and barley in seventeen days by the watch. [5]
- It was not true, but the story had value for me, for it made me nervous, and nervousness wakes a person up and makes him alive and alert, and heightens the thrill of a new and doubtful experience. [5]
- Approximations, synopsized speeches, translated poems, artificial flowers and chromos all have a sort of value, but it is small. [5]
- I soon found, too, that he had no ideas whatever on the value of discretion, and it was only by repeated threats of absolute failure that I prevented our secret tactics from becoming the property of his sporting fraternity and of the town. [9]
- You made yourself too cheap at court here people will surely know how to put a higher value upon a man who is equally skilful in Netherland, Italian, and German music. [10]
- I know how to value his noble gifts, and I am his friend, but I am also his master, and I will find means of preventing my son from introducing the light conduct of the capital beneath his father's roof. [10]
- I assumed indifference to the matter, laying the packet down upon my couch, and saying to him, "You will convey my thanks to Mademoiselle Duvarney for these books, whose chief value lies in the honourable housing they have had. [11]
- And he refused to take any pay for it, in a sort of surprise that such a simple act of hospitality should have any commercial value. [4]
- I have tried to serve well those who have employed me, and if my services be of value to them, and to those who may need me in the future, they are not going to reject me. [9]
- What she found to say under the eyes of the servants is of little value, although the fact itself deserves to be commended as a high accomplishment; and while she talked, she studied the brooding mystery that he presented, and could make nothing of it. [9]
- He was able to say to himself that he had been justly cut off from kindness which he knew how to value in losing it. [8]
- One has only to sample the war-time prices of certain hostelries to appreciate the value of this. [9]
- We have learned to put a true value on the services of the watch-dog who bays the moon, but does not bite the thief! [6]
- If you wish to print anything print this letter; it may have some value, for it may explain to a reader here and there why it is that in interviews, as a rule, men seem to talk like anybody but themselves. [5]
- He always seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality I value most in people. [2]
- M. Kovalevsky writes to me from Naples, that he has now carried these observations yet further, and should his results be well established, the whole will form a discovery of the very greatest value. [1]
- Well, every one to his taste; but how would it be if old Horapollo taught us his value? [10]
- You don't seem to have any idea of the value of money. [9]
- Science has undertaken to fathom it, and the results which it gains with measures and numbers is of a different value and more lasting than that which the idle sport of the intellects of the older philosophers obtained. [10]
- The debts amounted to double the value of the property. [2]
- If he has to do so, he gives his life with a stony sense of loss which has none of the composure of those who have solace in thinking that what they leave behind has a constantly decreasing value. [11]
- Antyllus had intended to bestow the goblets; but he advised the youth to let him pay their value in money, for among them were several ancient pieces of most artistic workmanship, which Antony, the extravagant young fellow's father, might perhaps be unwilling to lose. [10]
- She was not to be deceived by the face value of the ladies' praises, nor rebuffed unmercifully by my Aunt Caroline, who had held the sceptre in the absence of a younger aspirant. [9]
- I shouldn't care to be a painted accident--I shouldn't value it. [5]
- They will cease to be a commercial commodity of so much value as now when teachers teach. [4]
- This obliges us to admit the truth of the unpalatable proposition just mentioned above--that, in disputed matters political and religious, one man's opinion is worth no more than his peer's, and hence it followers that no man's opinion possesses any real value. [5]
- This obliges us to admit the truth of the unpalatable proposition just mentioned above--that in disputed matters political and religious one man's opinion is worth no more than his peer's, and hence it follows that no man's opinion possesses any real value. [5]
- We must shine to a few brothers, as palms or pines or roses among common weeds, not from greater absolute value, but from a more convenient nature. [6]
- I wish the time, when your father would value my greeting, might come again. [10]
- At the same time he is not oppressed by his materials, but has sagacity to estimate their real value, and he has combined with scholarly power the facts which they contain. [6]
- Nicholas accepted thirty thousand rubles offered him by his brother-in-law Bezukhov to pay off debts he regarded as genuinely due for value received. [2]
- Less care, I thought, had been given in the collection to "sets" of "standards" than to those that are rare, or for some reason, either from distinguished ownership or autograph notes, have a peculiar value. [4]
- And she added this: "When one receives the sacrament, the manner of his dress is a small thing and of no value in the eyes of Our Lord. [5]
- The attention of this great scholar and influential man had been attracted by Brugsch's first Egyptological works, which he had commenced before he left school, and his keen eye recognized their value as well as the genius of their author. [10]
- We need in this country not only the scholar, but the virtuoso, who hoards the treasures which he loves, it may be chiefly for their rarity and because others who know more than he does of their value set a high price upon them. [3]
- All she was thinking of was the number of furs her aesthetic father took the trouble to keep on hand, not their value. [5]
- The baser the things he continued to hear, the more clearly he learned to appreciate the value of the goodness and truth which he had lost. [10]
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