go to the effort of
Example Sentences
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Even when companies do go to the effort of recycling candy wrappers, they produce such a low-value plastic that it doesn’t recoup the cost of recycling.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 29, 2022
“It’s a way of saying ‘I don’t have to go to the effort of making changes because there’s nothing I can do anyway.’”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2022
Green tomatoes can be used as condiments in other ways, even if you don’t want to go to the effort of canning.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2021
If I was ever going to go to the effort of carrying around a little mechanical keyboard to use on top of a laptop, then I’d be giving the NT68 serious consideration.
From The Verge ● Jul. 16, 2021
Muldoon says: “Why go to the effort of establishing the metaphorical system of churning butter and then appeal to the quite different system of ‘pestling’?”
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2015
