How to Use nice in a Sentence

nice

1 of 2 adjective
  • She wears the nicest clothes.
  • It's nice to be back home.
  • It's so nice to see you again.
  • I hope you all had a nice time.
  • It's nice to know that you're all right.
  • He looks nice in his new suit.
  • We had a very nice dinner.
  • It would be nice to try something different.
  • It's nice to see you, Luis. How have you been?
  • Chopped nuts would add nice crunch.
    Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Apr. 2026
  • All the guys are good and nice.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Grape and sausage sounds so nice.
    Emily Elias, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Mar. 2026
  • That’s very nice of you, again.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That would be nice, wouldn’t it?
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
  • And are there nice guys out there?
    Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Just ask, but be nice about it.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The guys to my face have been nice.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • That, of course, was nice to read.
    Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
  • There was even time for a nice chat.
    Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The point is not to be nice or nasty.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Poblano chiles bring nice warmth but less heat.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Yeah, that’s a nice way of putting it.
    Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • That’s a nice chunk of change for the banks.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 12 June 2026
  • That’s true on the nicer side of life, too.
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
  • That would be nice if that’s how things worked.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Denise thought Fred looked nice.
    Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2025
  • That would be nice if that’s how the world worked.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2026
  • And if there is a next step, that would be nice.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Paramount+ is a nice-to-have, not a must-have.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Might be nice to work with Welts again.
    Kevin Sherrington feb. 18, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026

nice

2 of 2 adverb
  • Hyundai’s digital realm is both readable and nice-looking.
    Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 21 Jan. 2026
  • There’s something about a nice-smelling home that makes everything feel cleaner, brighter, and better.
    Emily Benda Gaylord, The Spruce, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Amazon has instead offered up a steady stream of nice-sounding anecdotes about plastic use that don’t add up to much.
    Matt Littlejohn, Fortune, 16 June 2022
  • Irish Spring featured a somewhat strange gathering of nice-smelling people on an island.
    Tim Calkins For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The rattan is weather-resistant, and the smaller, metal frame on the chairs and table makes this a nice-sized set for smaller patios.
    Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Dec. 2025
  • With that analogy in mind, the Cair Detangling Hair Mist is like treating your hair to a nice dry clean with every spritz.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Most of them are feeding off a neither-candidate-is-good-enough syndrome that makes people vote for mystery men and women who come attached to a nice-sounding party label.
    Gail Collins New York Times, Star Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Then again, these metrics are already gamed, and grant proposals are often little more than nice-sounding works of fiction, so perhaps the situation wouldn't be any worse than the current one.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Every year, leadership teams fly their organizations somewhere nice, sit in a windowless conference room and conduct strategic planning.
    Melanie Subin, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The Super Bowl winning coach has played nice at times lately, making some positive comments about the Giants’ internal operation and front office.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The Celtics brought in Anfernee Simons, Josh Minott, Luka Garza, and Chris Boucher—nice-seeming guys with little to no pedigree.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The latest in a string of shows about a nice-seeming suburban mom entangled in a web of improbably dark crime, this iteration stars Tatiana Maslany, Jake Johnson, and Dolly De Leon.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 22 May 2026

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