The word “good” is an adjective with multiple meanings, commonly referring to something positive, beneficial, or morally right. Writers use it to describe quality, value, character, and outcomes. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “good” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for Good
Possibly I had conjured up impossible dangers, like some nervous old housewife, and when I should catch up with Powell would get a good laugh for my pains.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
28 words, 155 characters
He was a splendid specimen of manhood, standing a good two inches over six feet, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip, with the carriage of the trained fighting man.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
30 words, 164 characters
I knew that I was a good officer and sailor, and I didn’t propose submitting to degradation and discharge because a lot of old, preglacial fossils had declared over two hundred years before that no man should cross thirty.
Source: Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs
39 words, 222 characters
He seemed always to be laughing; and he entered into the sports of the children with the same hearty good fellowship he displayed toward those pastimes in which the men and women of his own age indulged; or he would sit for an hour at a time entertaining my old grandmother with stories of his strange, wild life in all parts of the world.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
64 words, 339 characters
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