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
• 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
• But with the help of researchers and the goodwill of governments around the world as well as the art world, these challenges can once again be overcome.
  — Howard N. Spiegler, Fortune Europe, 23 Feb. 2024
• There is a lot of goodwill to catch for the pharmaceutical companies that, for once, get to be on the side of the good guys.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 18 Nov. 2020
• The success of the nonprofit’s threat to discontinue animal-welfare services in San Diego may reflect the huge reserve of goodwill the Humane Society has built up over many decades.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2025