the better part造句
1. Discretion is the better part of valour.
2. He thought discretion the better part.
3. Discretion is the better part of valor.
4. I spent the better part of a day cleaning that kitchen!
5. We've lived here for the better part of a year.
6. I haven't seen my tutor for the better part of a month!
7. The journey took her the better part of an hour.
8. Converse drank the better part of the rum.
9. The guy on the right side lost the better part of his face and was all messed up.
10. For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints.
11. I spent the better part of my time moping around the house, too dejected to think about practicing my stunts.
12. It took the better part of an hour, but in the end we managed to squeeze everything in.
13. Rhode Island native Charlie spent the better part of his adult life collecting Elvis Presley memorabilia.
14. The commander decided that discretion is the better part of valor.
15. We spent the better part of an hour searching for her.
16. It had taken the better part of a decade , but Reed Hastings was finally ready to unveil the device he thought would upend the entertainment industry.
17. Having seen his ally overwhelmed in this startling fashion, Count Vulgrin decided that discretion was the better part of valour.
18. It is not widely taught or particularly popular be-cause it takes the better part of a lifetime to master.
19. Another child makes the family wretched with his crying for the better part of an hour.
20. A community famed for exuberant high living suddenly decided that austerity was the better part of valour.
21. It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively - which means to live authentically-is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding - from others and also from themselves.Nathaniel Branden
22. The power grid has basically been the same for the better part of a century, says Ian Bowles, Massachusetts' secretary of energy and environmental affairs. That is, until the smart grid.
23. "This virus most likely has been circulating under the radar in pigs for the better part of 10 years," Worobey, who specializes in tracking viruses using a so-called molecular clock, told the meeting.
24. The technology to irradiate food has been around for the better part of a century.
25. "Until AIDS was initially recognized in 1981, the virus was cryptically [hiddenly] circulating in a sophisticated medical environment for the better part of 12 years, " Worobey said.