How to Use good guy in a Sentence

good guy

noun
  • First, was the idea about a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun.
    Paul Vasquez, Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2024
  • The hardest thing to teach our kids is that no one’s just a good guy or a bad guy.
    Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Others didn’t go through that step and put the wrong one out, but, but Rob’s a good guy and.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
  • There was no good guy with a gun to protect us kids at school.
    Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The only way to stop a criminal with a gun, is a good guy with a gun.
    Darlene Cerezo Swaffar, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 2024
  • Cliffhanger! Stray shots Sooooo LaRoche has been a good guy all along, right?
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Wayne always said that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a gun.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Orton became a good guy, and Cody and Ted teamed up against him.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The hardest thing to explain was that my ex was always a good guy and a great dad.
    Hoda Mallone, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • And there was a real good guy by the name of Daniel Powell who was the showrunner on, with Jessi Klein.
    Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
  • Her dad played at Delaware and was a big football fan and good guy.
    Dave Skretta, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Is Kittridge a good guy or a bad guy in Dead Reckoning?
    Time, 12 July 2023
  • In espionage fiction, there’s a clear good guy and bad guy.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Reigns is walking a tricky line, being a good guy but still keeping some of his dark, cool parts.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Sandy lost her soulmate and the world lost a talented, handsome, all around good guy!
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
  • What’s your take on playing a villain as opposed to playing a good guy in your roles?
    Okla Jones, Essence, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Beck seems to waver between being a villain and a good guy.
    Alison Weinflash, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Speaking of last season’s cliffhanger, is Rankin, like, 90% good guy at this point?
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Patrice Bergeron is a paragon of hockey virtue, a first-class player, leader, and all-time good guy.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • The character is complex, but nobody would call him a good guy.
    Mark Harris, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • As a good guy, his longest title reign was only 91 days.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Beom-woo’s growth from a bad person to a good guy happens, but feels somewhat unearned.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 11 June 2025
  • For some fans, the apology was enough: In their eyes, here was an otherwise good guy who’d made a mistake.
    Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Titans coach Brian Callahan is a good guy with a strong pedigree.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Here’s hoping good guy Christian Arroyo, now playing in Worcester, gets back to the big leagues.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, even the prosecutor thought Rideout seemed like a good guy.
    S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Her brother, who is a real estate broker in Oregon and a good guy, inherited the one-acre lot next door.
    Christopher A. Combs, AZCentral.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Todd seemed like a good guy, honest and critical of his own case, which was amazing to hear from a former prosecutor.
    Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In this case, the sole person there right now is a good guy who has to survive on his own.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
  • There is a good guy and there is a bad guy.
    Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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