good word

How To Use good word In A Sentence

• The teacher always puts in a good word for his former pupils.
• spoke a good word in his friend's behalf
• In writing, sometimes it's more important what you don't say: good word smithing phrase imagery can be relied upon to resonate meaning. Hey Obama -- Who Are You Calling Desperate?
• The exposure and _depluming_ (to borrow a good word from the fine old rhetorician, Fuller,) of the leading 'humbugs' of the age -- _that_ was announced as the regular business of the journal: and the only question which remained to be settled was, the more or less of the degree; and also one other question, even more interesting still, viz. -- whether personal abuse were intermingled with literary. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
• The chubby cherub can put in a good word with God.
• She may have backed out of plans to appear on "The Oprah Show," but Oksana Grigorieva has moved on to the next best platform to spread the good word about her bad relationship with baby-daddy Mel Gibson: People magazine. Oksana Grigorieva on Mel Gibson: 'I thought he would kill me'
• Surviving into his 90th year, he got nearly four decades, post-Warner, to spread the good word about classical cartooning and to hear quite a few thrown his way.
• But, as Sage points out, we as a culture don’t object to the “defeminisation” good word innovation, btw of girls nearly as much as we object to emasculation of boys. Link Farm and Open Thread #16
• A wise man should learn good behaviour, good words and good acts from every side, as a gleaner collects grains of corn from the field abandoned by the reapers.
• Sure whin Twenty-five comes, we'll have our own agin: the right will overcome the might -- the bottomless pit will be locked -- ay, double: boulted, if St. Pettier gets the kays, for he's the very boy that will accommodate the heretics wid a warm corner; an 'yit, faith, there's: many o' thim that myself 'ud put in a good word for, affcher all. The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three