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Example sentences for "good reason"

  • If one can change for a good reason, and if I make you a good reason, then will you change about me?

  • I don’t call it being changeable when one has a good reason for so doing.

  • If I make you a good reason--” he began, and then hesitated and was silent.

  • Of course there was no good reason why we lads should not be banded together in the service of the colony, and yet it seemed a forward thing to do, thus to ape our elders.

  • Put that close shave by the side of what we have done since morning, and then you may say with good reason that we have been of service to the Cause.

  • If he picks his intimates from such spawn as you there's good reason why he has allowed these colonies of his to come to open rebellion against injustice.

  • If the disease is caused, as we have shown there is good reason to believe it is, by the presence of a minute organism, this view does not seem to be untenable.

  • They are produced, there is good reason to believe, during the death agony, but are not peculiar to this disease, as they occur in many other diseases.

  • I see no good reason to abandon the words purification and lustration, believing that even if he is right in his explanation of the original performances, these ideas had been in course of time engrafted on them.

  • I suppose that's a good reason," she answered.

  • Of course it's a good reason," I assured her.

  • If Gifford was doubtful as to the expediency of the plan, and it was with a considerable amount of hesitation that he brought himself to agree to it, he seemed to have no good reason to urge against it.

  • My father, whom I loved, was turned against me; his mind was so prejudiced in favour of the man whom I was being gradually forced to take as a husband that he could see no good reason, only sheer obstinacy, in my refusal.

  • The final crux of the problem comes, then, to be whether there is good reason to believe that there are unusual events which cannot be accounted for by natural conditions.

  • There is good reason to believe, moreover, that men alternated between extremes of mood more than we do to-day with our settled horizon.

  • Such a doctrine, from its intrinsic unsoundness, can not long influence any considerable portion of our people, much less can it afford a good reason for a dissolution of the Union.

  • It will surely be admitted that this apprehension of future danger is no good reason for an immediate dissolution of the Union.

  • There is good reason to expect that under its protection and influence our trade and intercourse with that distant and interesting people will rapidly increase.

  • In that event, there is good reason to believe that the commerce between the two countries will greatly increase, much to the advantage of both.

  • No good reason can be shown why the decisions of courts should not be subjected to criticism, the same as the acts of legislative bodies.

  • In the first place, then, when I talk of "a reason," I mean only a good reason and not a bad one.

  • But what, then, is meant by a good reason for a belief?

  • I think I can express sufficiently accurately what I mean by it in this connection, as follows:--A good reason for a belief is a proposition which is true, and which would not be true unless the belief were also true.

  • But there is good reason to believe, that it was not written till the time of David, at least, and that the book of Joshua was not written before the same time.

  • A highly interesting example of this exists in the swim-bladder of the fish, which there is good reason to believe is a survival of an ancient structure used for quite a different purpose.

  • There is good reason to believe that escape by migration southward was cut off by the sinking of the ancient land bridges, so that the animals north of the Mediterranean had no choice between adaptation and annihilation.

  • And there is good reason to believe that it continued into the age of bronze, for the small size of the handles of bronze weapons show they must have been intended for men with small hands.

  • As the crow had no good reason to give for his delay, he said nothing: he simply bent his head.

  • Each of the three had a good reason, but all three could not marry the princess.

  • The king thought that Aninipot had a good reason, so he pardoned him also.

  • When they become too great in quantity to be needed for such purposes, then we may look for the depreciation with good reason.

  • When land is not intended to be cultivated, no good reason can in general be given for its being private property at all.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good reason" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good because; good birth; good breakfast; good confession; good cousin; good dish; good gentlemen; good meal; good meat; good novel; good nurse; good portion; good quantity; good rest; good sir; good sooth; good stead; good store; good strong; good style; good water; good workman; good works; good yeoman; goodly number; life interest