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Example sentences for "making good"

  • Sid, too, was trained to the minute, and the others, on whom Randall based her hopes, gave every promise of making good.

  • Maybe he isn't making good and is too proud to ask her to wait.

  • But if I wanted to light them up until they took the shadows out of the corners as they went out, I would give them a letter from a son, way off somewhere, making good.

  • Maybe he's making good somewhere, and they're both waiting until he does.

  • His struggles and triumphs in that league are told in the fourth volume of the series called "Baseball Joe in the Central League; Or, Making Good as a Professional Pitcher.

  • You are on the high road to 'making good'," said Hank.

  • Making good 'lows a man to be proud of hisself, and, jingo, it aer worth doing!

  • Not that Sam was of a pugnacious frame of mind; on the contrary, he was just one of the numerous citizens of Canada whose daily thoughts were centred in "making good".

  • The horizon was widening, and those of you who wish to follow further the adventures of our hero may do so in the succeeding volume, which will be called "Baseball Joe on the Giants; Or, Making Good as a Ball Twirler in the Metropolis.

  • The details of the stirring fight are told in the sixth volume of the series, entitled: "Baseball Joe on the Giants; Or, Making Good as a Ball Twirler in the Metropolis.

  • So Milly was learning that there is one worse experience in life than not "making good," and that is, giving the appearance of it and then collapsing.

  • How he speedily rose to leadership among the twirlers of his league is told in the fourth volume of the series, entitled: "Baseball Joe in the Central League; Or, Making Good as a Professional Pitcher.

  • How he came through an exciting season and in the final game won the championship for his team can be seen in the sixth volume of the series, entitled: "Baseball Joe on the Giants; Or, Making Good as a Ball Twirler in the Metropolis.

  • Our expenses in that quarter were swelled to the limit of working capacity on our underground explorations, as I realized that our salvation might depend on making good in quick order with Ely Central from a mining standpoint.

  • We stood pat and argued that he ought to be proud to share with us the glory of "making good" in such an unusual way to stockholders.

  • Making good time, they continued northward into Michipicoten Bay.

  • She's making good time, too," and Tom glanced over toward shore, watching the trees seemingly slip past.

  • Either you're in love, or you aren't making good.

  • They were traveling through a rather thin part of the forest then, making good time, for the snow was not so deep here.

  • When you become skillful in making good impressions, you certainly will be able to sell yourself into such chances to succeed as fit your individual qualifications.

  • Yet the selling process is as effective in making good impressions of the sort of husband one might be as in impressing an employer with the idea that one's services in business would prove desirable.

  • But the writer cannot advise penniless individuals to come out in the hope of taking up homestead duties at a remote point from the railway with the expectation of making good on it right away.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "making good" 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:
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