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
That Shakespeare was a good and perhaps keen man of business, or that he set store by a coat of arms, we could not have inferred from his writings.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
