How to Use make good in a Sentence

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  • Lawrence made good on his first chance, pumping his arms when his birdie putt dropped.
    — ABC News, 6 Sep. 2026
  • So far, the chain has made good on three of them, with more locations in the works.
    — Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The whole town was a monument to the hometown girl made good.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Just as good fences make good neighbors, good contracts make good partners.
    — Michael Lynch, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • All of that - making good hires and then setting them up for success - takes time.
    — Meg Anderson, NPR, 23 July 2026
  • The new job is to build the thing that makes good decisions happen without you.
    — Daria Rudnik, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Lowe can make good on his home run prop, and his +440 odds are alluring.
    — Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Some people in bad circumstances make good choices and some make wrong choices.
    — Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Gwen has a dark secret, a mission that went badly wrong, and the job is more of a gun to the head than a chance to make good.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2026
  • He's made good decisions about when to throw and not, and he's been accurate with his passes.
    — AJC.com, 3 Sep. 2026
  • What follows is presumably the narrator’s effort to make good on his or her threat.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The same money could be spent for teacher raises and making good public schools even better.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Give your strawberry patch a good start by planting them far away from these plants, and learn what plants make good companions.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 30 July 2026
  • The American was making good decisions and still lost the first set.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026
  • And only around 20% of their energy and time can go towards making good films.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 29 June 2026
  • The Royals have made good business economics here — with more yet likely to come from the state.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Good teachers should make good money, and very good educators should receive very good salaries.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026
  • We are elected to do a job, and that’s to make good decisions for the American people.
    — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Roses Whether zinnias and roses make good companion plants depends on your point of view.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2026
  • But the president has done little to hide his frustration over his inability to make good on that pledge.
    — Toluse Olorunnipa, The Atlantic, 4 July 2026
  • That speaks volumes about the confidence the company has in its ability to make good on its forecasts.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
  • European football’s failure to keep a lid on costs means that profits are rare and the only way to make good money is on the way out.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • Dart made good decisions, stood in there against the rush, did his best to stay out of harm’s way, even when the Cowboys knocked him around out of bounds.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The expansion is the latest attempt to make good on a vision Jeff Bezos laid out more than a decade ago.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Williams has also not made good on its 2025 promise, which was hampered by its late start to winter testing.
    — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 28 July 2026
  • If approved by the Senate, Cao will have more capacity to make good on his promise.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Monroe wore her wedding suit more than once Monroe made good use of her wedding suit before ever walking down the aisle.
    — Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
  • Pity the poor educators in between, trying to make good decisions.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Let this encourage you to make good use out of the Brilliant Earth arrivals, taking equally good care of them.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Harris can attack all the way to the rim through traffic, has an array of low- and mid-post finishes and can make good playmaking reads off the bounce.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

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