How to Use what good in a Sentence
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And what good is survival without what makes life worth living?
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Dec. 2025
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And what good mischief doesn't begin with a little sinful bite?
—Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2026
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The Wild know first-hand what good and bad starts can do for an NHL team.
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2025
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All those little decisions make up the larger picture of what good sound can mean.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2026
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Not just her skills on the court, but her entire understanding of what good guidance looks like.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 25 Jan. 2026
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Other than a four-point loss at Arizona State, Texas Tech is doing what good teams should do.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Nov. 2025
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Buyers used to have really in-depth knowledge of how clothes were made, what good construction looked like and what quality looked like.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 22 Jan. 2026
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This quest for good taste, which is also something very British, is very negative, in my opinion, because who defines what good taste is?
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
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The succor of small-time hubris is what good bake-offs are about—bakers driven only by that elegant, unimpeachable motive, to be the best.
—Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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The weirdos saved civilization, sure, but what good is civilization if not to further humanity?
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Dec. 2025
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In a band where a guitar and a saxophone can use one another as camouflage, what good is absolute allegiance to six strings, anyway?
—Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 17 Mar. 2026
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But what good is center stage if there aren’t a few supporting characters on hand, doing the legwork, cleansing the palate, and carrying the meal from the first bite to the last?
—Essence, 26 Nov. 2025
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For us, the best thing about that is, first of all, everyone in the company can participate in that, and everyone understands what good service is.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2025
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While many educational institutions work to adapt, there are existing models that provide guidance as to what good looks like.
—Anna Demeo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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Williams became a priority because his power and burst reminded Jerry of what good running backs once looked like, back when Zeke was at his best.
—Kevin Sherrington feb. 21, Dallas Morning News, 21 Feb. 2026
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Retailers and supply chain teams in particular struggle to replicate and scale what good performance looks like across their operations.
—Mikko Karkkainen, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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That's what good engineering provides, repeatable processes that work regardless of the specific variables.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
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Auditing, validation and correction are the de facto rate-limiting steps of virtually all work that runs through a screen, and that is simply a description of what good science always was.
—John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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The Pitt’s 15-episode season, simple premise, empathetic performances, and weekly release schedule, combined with a focus on ruthlessly realistic competence, erects a new benchmark for what good TV looks like in the streaming era.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
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