In Worry or Worried?

As owlman5 suggests, "worrying" describes an activity and "worried" a state of being. Someone who is worried is usually engaged in worrying, and vice versa. Which one you would choose might depend on the situation, but both are perfectly correct grammatically.

How do you use worry in a sentence?

Worry sentence example
  1. Don't worry ; everything will work out fine. ...
  2. Don't worry about him. ...
  3. Worry had prevented her from eating earlier. ...
  4. Don't worry , go! ...
  5. You have nothing to worry about. ...
  6. Her soft touch did more than erase the worry from his brow. ...
  7. I'm not the one you have to worry about.

How do you use worry as a verb?

It worries me that he hasn't come home yet. it worries somebody to do something It worried me to think what might happen. [transitive] to annoy or disturb someone worry somebody The noise never seems to worry her. worry somebody with something Don't keep worrying him with a lot of silly questions.

James H. Sterling

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