How to Use be any good in a Sentence

be any good

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  • The good news here — if there can be any good news — is that the signs are not subtle.
    Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2022
  • If this offense isn’t any good, these Titans won’t be any good.
    Gentry Estes, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Even then, there are no guarantees the vintage is going to be any good.
    Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • First there was the idea that a Scot could even be any good at junior level tennis.
    Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 6 July 2024
  • There doesn’t seem to be any good reason for it, because this is a little dead-end street that goes to the ocean.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • But listen, if one of your coaches is close to the same age as your players, your team not gonna be any good anyway.
    Hoopshype, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
  • There really doesn’t seem to be any good news about inflation for consumers on the horizon.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 24 June 2022
  • If the Mets are going to be any good, Edwin Diaz still needs to be great.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • But even with those boosts to size and strength, could waves on Titan actually be any good for surfing?
    Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024
  • Heading into this season, neither was expected to be any good.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Far fewer still bet on anything coming out at this late date would be any good, if the original recordings sat in the vault this long.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 30 June 2024
  • Speech to text would never be any good without this kind of continuous improvement.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2012
  • But the idealism of Star aside, would Emily actually be any good at her job in the real world?
    Meg Walters, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The individual models discounted might not be any good, though.
    PCMAG, 1 Dec. 2024
  • But part of new pitching coach Chris Holt’s job is to help transition the team’s promising prospects to the big leagues, and that task will almost chiefly dictate how quickly this team might be any good again.
    Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Being extraordinarily fast, obviously, doesn’t guarantee a college pass-catcher will be any good at the next level.
    Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2022
  • Both require intense concentration, in order to be any good, and diligent practice, and both make use of imagination—which in tennis takes the form of anticipation—and creativity.
    Thomas Swick september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • These AIs will never be any good at creating draft scripts—even of the most formulaic programming—unless their training set includes a giant library of Hollywood scripts.
    Roger McNamee, WIRED, 19 July 2023
  • In the midst of a rebuild, the Washington Nationals aren’t expected to be any good for the foreseeable future, but bad baseball is better than no baseball, and few things are more enjoyable than a day or night at the ballpark, no matter the score.
    Scott Allen, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023

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