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act in one's own or everybody's best interest
You will do well to arrive on time tomorrow!
How To Use do well In A Sentence
- Most people would do well to reduce the amount of salt in their diet.
- Someone who can, in all deliberateness, actually give forth that depraved statement would do well, truly, to reconsider or shut up.
- It is better to do well than to say well.
- It is better to do well than to say well.
- I sense they are very keen to do well, if a little bit apprehensive. Times, Sunday Times
- It is sensible to give the carp a balanced diet for we want the carp to do well on our baits.
- And while many people do beautifully on them -- you see another SSRI right here -- while many people do beautifully on SSRIs, some people don't do well and they would do better on another class of drugs called MAOI. CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2006
- He said that the party had proved its ability to do well without mounting a conventional campaign. Times, Sunday Times
- Therefore in reviewing the opinions and practices of ruder ages and races we shall do well to look with leniency upon their errors as inevitable slips made in the search for truth, and to give them the benefit of that indulgence which we ourselves may one day stand in need of: _cum excusatione itaque veteres audiendi sunt. The Golden Bough
- We know we have to convince people we can do well in the big games. The Sun