How to Use be great at in a Sentence

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• Sound good to me—that kind of robot would be great at data transfer.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2020
• The companies that thrive in the next decade won’t just be great at hiring.
  — Agni Ghosh, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• Working hard for a role is something that Stone has proven to be great at.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
• It's also proved to be great at baking in our baking pan tests and pie pan tests.
  — Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping, 1 June 2023
• Master something, be great at a young age, set yourself up to have an easy fourth quarter.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2025
• He also is thought to have the right mindset to get better and be great at every facet of the game.
  — Jimmy Price, Chron, 11 Nov. 2021
• Desi Lee may be great at the whole school thing, but her dating game needs some serious work.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 14 Sep. 2022
• Auburn is going to be great at running the ball, and maybe the best in the SEC.
  — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 23 Aug. 2023
• And some, ideally, will be great at responding to variants that don’t even exist yet.
  — Wired, 28 July 2022
• Even though palms may not be great at carbon sequestration, chopping them down isn't the answer.
  — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 23 Oct. 2021
• Kristos might not be great at socializing but is an extremely mature boy for his age.
  — Anna Tatarska, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022
• An expansion of that scene in the original movie where a Black woman is shown to be great at baseball.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2020
• The Bruins aren’t supposed to be great at football; they’re supposed to be great at basketball.
  — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
• But so many of us Black men are functioning off this innate gift, this natural ability to be great at it.
  — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 June 2021
• Bad news for any sport conducted outside, because unless Nepartak veers course, the great outdoors won’t be great at all.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 25 July 2021
• To be great at something requires obsession, but obsession can also hollow out other parts of life.
  — Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
• Pixsy has created a map with some of the best stargazing locations around the world, as well as tips on how to be great at astrophotography.
  — Layla McMurtrie, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2022
• Antihistamines can be great at relieving allergy symptoms such as sneezing, runny nose, and itchy, watery eyes.
  — Daniel More, Verywell Health, 9 Mar. 2024
• That said, synthetic fabrics like polyester and nylon can also be great at wicking moisture away—this is generally what activewear is made of, for instance.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, SELF, 15 Dec. 2023
• Contrary to popular belief, introverts can be great at socializing.
  — Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
• This ingredient is a mixture of magnesium oxide and carbon dioxide that proved to be great at soaking up oils and blurring pores, similarly to a powder.
  — Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 4 Oct. 2022
• The hippocampus may be great at particular kinds of computations and may have the ability to be modified or programmed by evolution.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
• It should be pointed out, though, that while the CPU is shaping up to be great at gaming, content creation performance might not yield the same benefits.
  — Antony Leather, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• According to Bixler, the reference platform also helps level the playing field for job candidates who are very hard workers but who might not be great at interviewing.
  — Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• Lillard should still be great at that age, but inevitably, there will come a day when his price tag and diminishing talents will become detrimental to the franchise if the Blazers clearly have no chance to contend with him on the roster.
  — oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2020
• And even if the jokes are somehow grade-A stand-up material, there’s still the matter of them being delivered by actors who may be great at comedy within scenes, but not at the specific demands of standing at the mic.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2021
• Hokkaido’s Aomori is usually rated the world’s snowiest city (over 100,000 people), with well over 300 inches in town, numbers that would be great at the top of most major ski resorts.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026