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Example sentences for "thoroughly good"

  • I think she is a thoroughly good woman, and I know she is a very delightful companion.

  • His purpose evidently was to erect a house which should be as perfect a specimen of the builder's art as he could make it, and therefore useful, as an example of thoroughly good work, to the local workmen.

  • As to education, the lower grades will always be cared for in the public schools by the State; but the institutions of the highest grade, without which the lower can never be thoroughly good, can be appreciated by only a few.

  • Edwin Nobbs is a thoroughly good fellow, and Fisher Young is coming on very well.

  • I don't think I remember any speech on a similar occasion so thoroughly good, and so likely to do good.

  • There is no danger to a thoroughly good horsewoman in riding a horse that is "light-hearted.

  • If such a man is not within reach, then I submit that it is better to entrust the riding education of the young lady to any staid middle-aged gentleman who is a thoroughly good horseman, and who will undertake the task con amore.

  • She started by telling a thoroughly good story, the general import of which was the same as she told months previously, but there were differences in many details.

  • For several years now she has been a young woman of thoroughly good character.

  • We have no history of this woman ever having indulged in elaborate fabrications and, in general, she is of thoroughly good reputation.

  • The value of a thoroughly good admonition is frequently enhanced by the knowledge that it comes from the mouth of a thoroughly good man.

  • Nevertheless there is in him a secret joy of possession, calm and pleasant, in contemplating the wife, and a quiet satisfaction, in hearing the music, that the taste of his youth was so thoroughly good.

  • Thoroughly good iron is convertible and reconvertible into an endless number of objects of usefulness.

  • For ascertaining the altitude of high lands, ranges of hills or mountains, a thoroughly good "compensated" aneroid barometer should be taken.

  • Procure also from some first-class maker a thoroughly good india-rubber coat; long enough to come well below the tops of the butcher boots.

  • First, then, have them made to measure from flannel which has been previously well shrunk, of thoroughly good quality, of medium substance, and unobtrusive pattern or colour.

  • By a thoroughly good naturalist Kingsley may have meant a thoroughly good nature-writer, for I think he had in mind Gilbert White, who certainly was a thoroughly good naturalist, and who certainly knew his own parish thoroughly.

  • With all his many faults, he was a thoroughly good-natured old devil--very superior in every way to the one the Arabian Nights fisherman found in his bottle.

  • For, old foozle as he is, he's thoroughly good-hearted.

  • A new implement may be defective and worthless, and yet contain the germ or suggest the form of a thoroughly good one.

  • A thoroughly good farmer is a useful, valuable citizen: so is a good merchant, doctor, or lawyer.

  • I have no such knowledge of Chemistry and Geology as any man needs to make him a thoroughly good farmer.

  • A thoroughly good riding-school horse may be a very brute when in the park.

  • In this country, the Southerner is the most constantly in the saddle, and a good rider in the sunny South is a thoroughly good rider.

  • It is sometimes said in England that a School-rider reining in his steed never looks as if he were having a thoroughly good time, as does the man who lets his horse go his own inspiriting gait along the road.

  • They were soon enjoying themselves to their hearts' content, bathing and skylarking, scrubbing their clothes, drying them on the hot sand, and having a thoroughly good time.


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


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