How to Use very good in a Sentence

very good

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  • Some of them would be very good.
    CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • That makes my heart feel very good.
    Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Keisean had a very, very good year.
    Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • His staff is very good at that side.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a very good chance that’ll be true.
    NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Prokhorov is a huge winger with very good hands.
    Corey Pronman, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Team Casper has been very good at this.
    Matt Slater, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • And this came from a very good source, a very good source.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • This was his third game in a row that wasn’t very good.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • For a while, their tryst seems like a very, very good one.
    Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Green Bay is still in a very good place.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • My mother was a very good cook.
    Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
  • And that lack of respect is very good.
    E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The results so far have been very good.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Your brain is very good at time travel.
    Angela Haupt, Time, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The league is always very good.
    Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The program is in a very good spot.
    Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • This year is going to be a very good year.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Our team played very good defense.
    Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas Morning News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Golf teaches you very good life lessons.
    Brody Miller, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In either case, very good girl.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • And it's been very good for my daughter.
    Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 14 Feb. 2026
  • She's become a very good friend.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • That’s not a very good recipe for success.
    Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The movies also weren’t very good.
    Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
  • And the issue is that many aren’t very good.
    Grace Raynor, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • And yet…the lead actors are very good in it.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But, again, a very good player.
    Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • There were very, very good moments with him.
    Simon Johnson, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • In the schools, this kind of art was not seen in a very good way.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Oct. 2025

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