Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: worries
IPA transcription: [w'ɝiz]
Usage examples
  • "Worries me, too.
  • I'll sing away the worries, Good-bye.'
  • "Sid, this damn dog business worries me."
  • There were no anxieties, there were no worries, and there was a grateful little girl.
  • He prates about it, and writes to the papers about it, and worries the legislators about it.
  • "Yes, captain," I replied, "but unfortunately we've brought back a horde of bipeds whose proximity worries me."
  • "We are delighted to have you with us, however you came here," replied the Clown; "and as for your getting home again, why, that is worry, and no one ever worries in the Valley of Clowns.
  • He is still in the pike's throat, and cannot get away, for he has his twelve stiffest dorsal spines bored into his enemy's palate; and the more he worries and works with his dangerous opponent, the deeper and more firmly do the spines fix themselves.
  • They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.