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Example sentences for "was good"

  • And wherever she came charging down the lines, reviewing the troops, it was good to hear them break out and cheer.

  • It was good to see the Bailly's surprise.

  • It was good advice, maybe, but it fell upon pretty unfruitful soil.

  • It was good to see them again, and perhaps after all we are better this side of the Island.

  • His goodness, when he was good, seemed to her no more remarkable than his badness, when he was bad.

  • It was home, and it was good to get home after the long day.

  • He said that it was good as far as it went, but that it didn't go far enough.

  • And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas, and God saw that it was good.

  • And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide between the light and between the darkness; and God saw that it was good.

  • And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness.

  • And the earth caused to go forth sprouts, the herb seeding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit whose seed is in it, after his kind, and God saw that it was good.

  • So the two old gossips talked and talked; talked about everything and everybody in the village; and it was good to hear.

  • It was long, but it was good, and had the sterling ring to it.

  • His ordinary councils were stale water--his spirit was drinking wine, now, and the taste of it was good.

  • It was good for us both--he needed me, and I needed him.

  • It was good to trust all to him, just to step forth from the old maze into this dreamed existence, which somehow had been made true, where there was no need to take thought.

  • The Marechale flew as usual to the King, who, seeing that Saint-Ruth was incorrigible, was good enough to send him to Guyenne under pretence, of employment.

  • He assured me it was good, and repeated to me the words Fagon had spoken to him, "that things were going an according to their wishes, and beyond their hopes.

  • The fellow's name was Madot: he was good for no other employment, but gained his pay in this one by an assiduity of which perhaps no one else would have been capable.

  • He was good, but dull, his schoolmasters said.

  • At length she said,-- 'I wish I was good!

  • He was good-tempered and kind; not without some of the cheerful flippancy of repartee which belonged to his age and profession, and which his age and profession are apt to take for wit.

  • The trees had been cleared from it, so that it was good going.

  • It was good, sound going, with a few little rises; and, knowing that he would have to slacken speed presently, Wally let the chestnut have his head across the clear grass.

  • I'd not say meself it was good," admitted Murty O'Toole, head stockman on the Billabong run.

  • It was good to have any sort of explanation, although it left a great deal unexplained.

  • However, it was good news, and Frank shook the proffered hand of the accountant.

  • He was good-looking and athletic, and was said to be generous and good-natured, and when he went to Harrow, he became popular.

  • Kami used to dream colour; I swear he could never have seen the genuine article; but he evolved it; and it was good.

  • It would be delightful at least to see what would happen, and by her teachings it was good for a man to stand in certain awe of his companion.

  • It was good to find her still Maisie, and, so to speak, his next-door neighbour.

  • The Indian Government being minded to discover the economic condition of their lands, sent a Committee to inquire into it; and saw that it was good.

  • It recalled Maisie and past success, reckless travels by land and sea, the glory of doing work and feeling that it was good, and suggested all that might have happened had the eyes only been faithful to their duty.

  • The mayor had given her fifty francs because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just.

  • This time it was not that terrible light; it was good, white light.

  • Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of poetry, he preferred the immense.

  • You wouldn't believe I was good-looking once, would you?

  • But I knew I was good looking, and I thought if I could only hold out I might get married to some fellow who was well fixed.

  • This was rather a poor trick; but where force is all and right is naught, it was good enough to stir up a war.

  • And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he seas: and God saw that it was good" (v 10).

  • God saw, that to separate the waters from the earth was good: And so it is, for then have the churches rest.

  • Hopeful, agreeably to his name, was not only preserved from terror, but enabled to encourage his trembling companion telling him the welcome news that "he felt the bottom, and it was good.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "was 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:
    breakfast dish; contact with; dead language; high explosive; light winds; material substance; prison camp; quote from; shall recur; small lakes; still lives; that woman; was come; was not; was taken; was the; was very; wash them; washed away; washing machines; washing soda; waste away; waste lands; waste matter; waste paper; when cold