How do you use the word "care" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "care" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "care": They are too busy fighting against each other to care for common ideals. My physics teacher doesn't care if I skip classes.

Care Meaning

/kɛə/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounClose attention; concern; responsibility.

nounWorry.

Sentence Examples

They are too busy fighting against each other to care for common ideals.

My physics teacher doesn't care if I skip classes.

Some people were badly injured and needed medical care.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

wish like aid

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

They take great ____ of their elderly grandmother every single day.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

You should take good ____ of your health by eating healthy food now.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r-der. Proto-Germanic *karō Proto-West Germanic *karu Old English caru Middle English care English care From Middle English care, from Old English caru, ċearu (“care, concern, anxiety, sorrow, grief, trouble”), from Proto-West Germanic *karu, from Proto-Germanic *karō (“care, sorrow, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r- (“shout, call”). Cognate with Old Saxon cara, kara (“concern, action”), Middle High German kar (“sorrow, lamentation”), Icelandic kör (“sickbed”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌰 (kara, “concern, care”). Related also to Dutch karig (“scanty”), German karg (“sparse, meagre, barren”), Latin garriō, Ancient Greek γῆρυς (gêrus). See also chary.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I thank thee for thy care and honest pains." — 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

"Yes, heaven, I’m in heaven / And the cares that hung around me through the week / Seem to vanish like a gambler’s lucky streak" — 1956, Irving Berlin, “Cheek to Cheek”:

"Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 11:28:

"The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation." — 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:

"Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares." — 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17:

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