How to Use goodwill in a Sentence

goodwill

noun
  • They allowed him to keep the extra money as a gesture of goodwill.
  • She has goodwill toward all her coworkers.
  • The ship was docked in New York for five days as part of a goodwill tour.
    John Bacon, USA Today, 21 May 2025
  • Clyburn said Biden had a reservoir of goodwill in the state and had spent a lot of time there.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2020
  • This wouldn't be the first time Phillippe has stressed the importance of goodwill.
    Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The problem isn’t due to a lack of goodwill or righteous ...
    Robert Nicholson, National Review, 29 May 2022
  • Swan’s voice squanders any goodwill the song kicks off with.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Not for goodwill, but for a project that would reteam them as writers.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The result was a ton of interest in the show and lots of goodwill from subscribers.
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2023
  • But as the war drags on, strains on resources and goodwill are starting to show.
    Hanna Kozlowska, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2022
  • By that time, there was enormous goodwill for these rare birds.
    Maddie Bender, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
  • So why, in spite of all that, does ‘Old’ still inspire a spasm of retroactive goodwill?
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2021
  • The pandas, in a gesture of goodwill from China, are the first to be sent to the United States in more than two decades.
    Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • That’s the sort of goodwill big studios can’t buy—and don’t care to anymore, anyway.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The nation, in a gesture of goodwill, had been sending pandas on loan to the U.S. for more than 50 years.
    Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • For Fuente, there’s simply not enough goodwill in the bank to survive a season like this.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2021
  • But with the stroke of his pen last week, much of that goodwill dissipated.
    Nick Martin, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
  • Pricing at $50 or even the normal $60 would have earned some goodwill here.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 June 2022
  • Killer Mike thanked his fans for their goodwill messages.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Don’t depend on luck or goodwill to get over a sticking point.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 30 July 2021
  • Hathaway is a hit, as is the CGI work, which is more than enough goodwill to warrant a sequel.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2021
  • There is too much love and goodwill and the fan base is incredible.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 June 2021
  • Any hopes for equality would be up to the goodwill of rich countries.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Oh, so this goodwill gift, this gift from Japan literally went up in flames for the world to see.
    Hilda Gitchell, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2023
  • But Tesla still enjoys a great deal of goodwill, while Ford is . . .
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 27 May 2021
  • Tevez hopped across town to Manchester City and torched his goodwill.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • But he has been met, by and large, with an outpouring of goodwill, from colleagues and the public alike.
    Molly Ball, Time, 20 July 2023
  • But there was so much goodwill in the audience at those first few previews.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 June 2024
  • Instead, each burned out any goodwill within two years.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 21 May 2025
  • The indie exec has a lot of goodwill in the domestic space and is seen as a bolstering of further efforts to push into North America.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025

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