be conscientious

Example Sentences

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So I’m trying to be conscientious of how I help or hurt the world.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022

Said McNickle: “The more people know where they are, the more they're going to be conscientious when they’re driving. That's our goal.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2022

“With the spike right now, I think people should take it into their own hands and be conscientious about how you feel and gauge how comfortable you feel,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2022

This is also an opportunity to teach them how to be conscientious of ways in which having wealth gives them advantages other people don’t have, and to teach them to be good stewards of it.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2022

In his speech of 1880, before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard, Wendell Phillips said—what as a rule is true—that "a reformer, to be conscientious, must be free from bread-winning."

From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady