How to Use good in a Sentence

good

1 of 3 adjective

• Keep up the good work.
• The food was good but not great.
• Did you have a good time at the party?
• I'm afraid your work is just not good enough.
• The car is in good condition.
• You'll need better tools for this job.
• He has done good but not outstanding work.
• There are some good restaurants in this neighborhood.
• We're expecting good weather for the weekend.
• The last three jumps felt good.
  — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
• Our guess was as good as yours.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
• Who thought this was a good idea?
  — Lacey Beasley, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
• Nightcrawlers are a good live bait.
  — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
• So the plays here and there, good.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
• There’s some good hope there, too.
  — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
• In your view, is that a good thing?
  — Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025
• God took a good one away far too soon.
  — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• As for what’s next, best strap it down.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 10 May 2026
• One clean sheet so far is a good start.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• The next-best fill-in might be White.
  — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
• Your best bet is to throw them out and start over each fall.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
• And then had good feel, knew when to take off with his feet.
  — Grace Raynor, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
• There may be good reasons for it.
  — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 28 June 2026
• All that was left was best picture.
  — Paul Fischer, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026
• But hard times create good wool.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2025
• Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
• On top of all that, Minten had a good camp.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• To good sleep and breathing well!
  — Edgar Castro Tello, Health, 26 Feb. 2026
• Collins has looked good in camp workouts.
  — Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2026
• And that’s a good thing for new drivers.
  — Kristin Shaw, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026

good

2 of 3 noun

• Teachers can be a strong force for good.
• She believes that the good go to heaven when they die and the bad go to hell.
• What is life's highest good?
• Only the good die young.
• Parents must teach their children the difference between the good and the bad.
• They had to sacrifice lesser goods for greater ones.
• She believes there is some good in everyone.
• But your guess is a good as ours.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
• This is a war of evil against good.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 18 Oct. 2025
• Great for baked goods and fall recipes.
  — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
• Is there any good to come of such tragedy?
  — Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2025
• Kern said the bill looks at the greater good for the state.
  — Barbara Hoberock, Oklahoma Voice, 10 Feb. 2026
• And put my past behind me for good.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Apr. 2026
• And to lie to people for their own good.
  — Will Carless, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
• Durable goods will also be out.
  — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 25 June 2026
• Those who are in charge are eating good.
  — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
• The old goods yard is full of restaurants.
  — Dominic Green, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
• Greed has never been this good.
  — Gilad Edelman, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
• A lot of people would say that is a net good.
  — Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
• Not enough to do me any good, but enough to make a song about it.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2024
• And that the money ought to be used for good.
  — Kansas City Star, 31 Oct. 2025
• By mid-April a lot of good could start to roll in.
  — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 14 Mar. 2026
• For the sake of the greater good, don’t just wear a mask and stay at home.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 2 June 2020
• Your eyes, use them to see the good in people and in each day.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2022
• But the extra few days of rest looks to have done them some good.
  — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 27 Feb. 2026
• My best friend has seen the good, the bad and the ugly sides of me.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 13 May 2022
• Use it as a dip, on a sandwich, in a soup or in a baked good.
  — Alysha Witwicki, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2019
• Peltz is out of Brooklyn's life for good.
  — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Was Betty, in the stricter sense, any good?
  — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
• Use chia flour and seeds when making baked goods, such as muffins or bread.
  — Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 27 Oct. 2025

good

3 of 3 adverb

• The team is doing good this year.
• The other team whipped us good.
• Things have been going good lately.
• Shake it up good and don’t over dress it!
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2025
• Clean lines are well and good, but at some point ease starts to feel like erasure.
  — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 25 Jan. 2016
• Usually, your first test is bad, even if the movie ends up good.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2022
• All four new starters will put up good-to-great numbers for some of the nation's best teams.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2022
• Forbes, Devin’s face, 29 years old, good-looking.
  — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026
• In that sense, the jury—and the public—was being good-copped.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• Both are good-eating ducks, though the young birds are full of pinfeathers.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2021
• We were supposed to be just funny, stupid, and good-looking.
  — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 24 Feb. 2026
• What’s your plan for creating good-paying jobs?
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr, Dallas Morning News, 14 Feb. 2026
• When my arm feels good, pitching is my favorite thing to do on the diamond.
  — Tim Schwartz, Howard County Times, 21 June 2017
• Mejia is good-looking in a middle-aged Vin Diesel sort of way.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• The coal economy withered away and took the good-paying jobs with it.
  — Dylan Lovan, ajc, 2 Aug. 2022
• No doubt, the weekly good-bad-ugly film study with the full team present had plenty on the back end.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 12 Sep. 2022
• The less good-looking, but those of us really putting in the effort.
  — John Ortved, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2020
• These are good-paying jobs that are critical for our future.
  — Kevin Stitt, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
• Just the thought of hugging your friend good-bye after hanging out at the park is electric.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 8 June 2021
• Everything came back good -- CT (scan), all that kind of stuff.
  — Reuters, CNN, 29 Apr. 2021
• The guy’s a good-looking, young director that has a penchant for younger girls.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2022
• Whitby still doesn't have that college degree, which might help her land a good-paying job.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2022
• This grill is quite good-looking, too, made of stainless steel accented by sleek knobs and trims.
  — Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Apr. 2023
• Rosen has talent, and there’s still a market for this former first-round pick, who has looked good early.
  — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Aug. 2020
• For example, if a dairy cow produces lots of good-tasting milk, what farmer wouldn’t want two of that cow?
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2020
• Don’t trust a good-looking website or a salesperson who sounds friendly on the phone.
  — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2020
• The camera block is good-looking, too, with more chamfered edges, square sides, and a two-tone color scheme.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2022
• People want clean energy and good-paying jobs.
  — Jamie Valdez, Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2025
• There’s no shame in combining two colors that look berry good together.
  — Essence, 15 Dec. 2025
• These cars are so over-the-top, but still legitimately good-looking.
  — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 19 Feb. 2026