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Example sentences for "good sense"

  • Give her Dryden's Cock and Fox, the standard of good sense, poetry, nature, and ease.

  • Here's my fathom o' good sense in love with a wax doll, and her brother jilting his sister, and her father pillaging his mother.

  • In the midst of Irving's mock-heroics, he always preserves a substratum of good sense.

  • Yet it is interspersed with strokes of humor and observations full of good sense.

  • To determine these points, belongs to good sense.

  • Absurdities, of every kind, are contrary to grammar, because they are contrary to reason, or good sense, which is the foundation of grammar.

  • Good sense, clear ideas, perspicuity of language, and proper arrangement of words and thoughts, will always command attention.

  • Nevertheless, is it not apparent that such meetings as this, conducted by a man of tact, good sense, and experience, must be an aid to good living?

  • Such anecdotes as these, which are very numerous, both in and out of print, convey an inadequate idea of his understanding; for there was really a great fund of good sense in him and in his political creed.

  • The world is probably not aware of the ingenuity, humor, good sense, and sly satire contained in many of the old English nursery-tales.

  • It must be noted, too, that she was gifted with great good sense--the good sense of the people, which made her education sound.

  • Vyder; he is a very worthy old fellow, with plenty of good sense.

  • To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense.

  • Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.

  • To feel his courage backing his high good sense was to repose in security, and her knowledge that an astute self-control was behind his courage assured her he was invincible.

  • They are over, and she will show a return of good sense.

  • The accomplishments, good sense, and exalted sentiments of Count Altenberg, and the marked attentions he had paid her, had made an unusual impression on the mind of Caroline.

  • As usual, she spoke with persuasive gentleness and good sense; she marked where each had, in the warmth of argument, said more than they intended, and she seized the just medium by which all might be conciliated.

  • The author of 'Good Sense' has observed, that names which may be made to mean anything in reality mean nothing.

  • If a man can be outwardly open and inwardly reserved in a good sense, he can be so in a bad sense; so, too, he may have the external air of great excellence and purity, while internally he is foul and unfaithful.

  • But even in the wars you allude to, if you examine, you will generally find them originate in the love of justice, which is the basis of good sense, not from any insane desire of conquest or glory.

  • All this was the language of good sense, and there is no evidence that Diderot ever swerved from that fair and honourable attitude in his own dealings with the booksellers.

  • On such occasions what is the part of good sense?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good sense" 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 actor; good conduct; good courage; good dame; good effect; good field; good friends; good girl; good ground; good hand; good lack; good large; good looking; good parte; good piece; good priest; good reading; good scholar; good society; good spoonful; good story; good sword; good turn; good water; good weather; good young