How to Use for the better in a Sentence

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• Over the next four years, the Supreme Court could change this — for the better.
  — Kelly Shackelford, National Review, 10 Jan. 2025
• What’s your view about how it’s changed the area for the better or worse?
  — Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
• And she’s been trying to reach this point for the better part of the past decade.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
• This was a year that my life changed for the better in the most precious way.
  — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
• The ash plume forced the closure of most of Europe’s airspace for the better part of a week.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• But protests, at their core, are an act of hope that things can change for the better.
  — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2024
• And that the worst and most misguided among us can change for the better.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 11 June 2024
• The lives of everyone involved in the song changed for the better in April 2014.
  — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 22 Apr. 2024
• And will Iran change for the better without this hard-liner at the helm?
  — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2024
• Wages have been climbing faster than prices now for the better part of two years.
  — Scott Horsley, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
• Ten years later, things haven’t changed for the better.
  — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 19 Sep. 2023
• Now that, at long last, the case has been decided, that has changed for the better.
  — The Editors, National Review, 13 Mar. 2024
• The whole ordeal has left her feeling changed for the better.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024
• These honey badgers could change the world for the better.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 26 Jan. 2024
• A lot has changed since and, on balance, mostly for the better.
  — Will Hawkes, Saveur, 29 May 2024
• Holmes drove around in an unmarked car for the better part of two hours on his gang unit shift.
  — Rachel Spacek, Idaho Statesman, 25 Jan. 2024
• When things seem to start changing for the better, he is betrayed and escapes to the city.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
• Sitting in a cramped metal tube for the better part of a day (or more) is not good for you.
  — Chris Heasman, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2024
• That’s only natural for the Warriors, a team that has been at the top of the league for the better part of a decade.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
• Think of these additions to your routine as changes for the better — no, the best!
  — Paige Stables, Allure, 1 Oct. 2023
• Like things could change for the better if only a few teenagers with the right balance of spunk and smarts showed up.
  — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
• That demand for music and creation has changed the city for the better.
  — Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 18 Mar. 2025
• Some stay in for three minutes; others splash around for the better part of an hour.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2024
• The answer, at least for us mere mortals, is no, and that’s likely for the better.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• The baby is going to change our life only for the better.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
• With only 15 games left before tonight's matchup for the Bucks and 14 left for the Warriors, a lot can change for the better or for the worse.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
• Shapiro and Bennett both left the moment feeling changed for the better.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2024
• An offer that has the potential to change your life for the better over the coming years.
  — Debbie Frank, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
• Efforts to link greater Houston to the Metroplex via bullet train have chugged along in fits and starts for the better part of a decade.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2025
• The tech boom was fueled by scrappy startups that catered to their workers’ dreams of changing the world for the better.
  — Nicholas Riccardi, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025