set store by
Example Sentences
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We must respect the older generation and set store by their opinion, otherwise it will happen to us.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2018
The UK has set store by establishing a high level of co-operation on security issues, like counter-terrorism and the fight against organised crime, with the EU after Brexit.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2018
For someone whose career had almost been done in by a spreadsheet, Jeff Park certainly set store by them.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2018
They also set store by attempts to suppress demand.
From Economist ● Jan. 4, 2018
But of a surety it was not in thy noble heart to set store by such small wealth!
From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. I by Gomes Eannes de Azurara
