How To Use Good word In A Sentence
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The teacher always puts in a good word for his former pupils.
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spoke a good word in his friend's behalf
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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?
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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
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The chubby cherub can put in a good word with God.
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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'
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Another good word game is to find a phrase that is a palindrome.
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Good words are worth much and cost little.
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He hasn't a good word to say for anybody.
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It wasn't so painful but "discomforting", is that a good word?
Nisayon Diary Entry
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These subjective conscious experiences are called "quale," plural "qualia," another good word for showing off your philosophy knowledge.
Planet Atheism
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Funny how we are so. .whattaya call it ... chauvinistic might be a good word ... that when some of us read 'foreigner', all that's thought of is folks from North of the Border -- and South of that other Border, the one way up north.
Foreigners Living in Jalisco
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For though one should speak ten thousand words well, if there happen to be one little word displeasing to you, because not sufficiently intelligible or accurate, you make no account of the many good words, but lay hold of the little word, and are very zealous in setting it up as something impious and guilty; in order that, when you are judged with the very same judgment by God, you may have a much heavier account to render for your great audacities, whether evil actions, or bad interpretations which you obtain by falsifying the truth.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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It’s fair in the sense that, yeah, some bloggers do seem to think they’re journalists and they’re just, well, shithouse is a good word that comes to mind.
Bloggers have cred? « Squash
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And you are right, it is a good word in it’s original meaning and it is regrettable that the “zombie” connotations have overwhelmed it’s meaning when there isn’t an adequate replacement (educable, educatable & teachable have their own connotations).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Adderall
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Describing a scene in "Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley" (1918) where two characters are mocked for their pretensions to individuality and refinement, Mr. Shannon puts in a good word for "the Irish art of begrudgery," the much-noted Celtic practice of ridiculing anyone in the community who had the temerity to stand out.
Visiting Cagney's Neighborhood
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I do not know the meaning of the word fraught, but it is frequently used in history in that connection, and I throw it in, believing that it is a pretty good word.
How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887
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Waney" is a good word, almost as good as "sensiation"; so when you try to quarter a log with which to chink your cabin or log house don't select a "waney" log.
Shelters, Shacks and Shanties
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by 'garth' meaning 'garden': a good word, and why the devil it should be obsolescent is more than I can tell you --
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
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I have always thought 'vivacuous' is a good word, and hope one day to write a book about this phenomenon, using a title purloined from some Fitzroy graffiti, 'Gentrifuct'.
Dis-O Week
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I think it is part of Dadd's predilection for double-speak and dangerous puns: "Elimination" contains the word "limn" which is a good word for painting, but also is part of Dadd's habit of decrying painting as pointless and worthless.
The Guardian World News
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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.
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Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.
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Kat, cheery is a good word -- it is a pretty nice thing to have greet me in the kitchen every morning!
If there was any doubt that Christmas is coming...
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But withal he cannot be called an honest man, unless in that sort of liberal signification by which, in these days, good words are so detorted from their original and genuine meaning as to express precisely the reverse of what was formerly intended by them.
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
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In our notions concerning Substances, we are liable to all the former inconveniences: v.g. he that uses the word tarantula, without having any imagination or idea of what it stands for, pronounces a good word; but so long means nothing at all by it.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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So it's kind of a wave of self-hatred and ... bored - boredness is a good word.
PlugInMusic.com
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You are the first person to use the word persnickety that I have ever encountered – Way To GO! good word
One way to fill blogspace on a pre-long weekend Friday – Liveblogging a PMO background briefing - Inside the Queensway - Macleans.ca
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Good words and ill deeds deceive wise and fools.
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Good words and ill deeds deceive wise and fools.
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Wouldn't "nympholept" be a good word to see more of around the place, by the way?
Languagehat.com: LIMERENT.
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Our right side, you may know, is called our dexter side from which we get the good words dexterous and dexterity.
Pam's House Blend - Front Page
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Title of _Anax andron_ descendible" (good word, "descendible") "from father to son, and accorded in the poems to personages altogether secondary,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 17, 1892
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Good words are worth much and cost little.
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On the other side a good word is a deaw from heaven to earth, that soakes into the roote and sends forth fruite from earth to heaven: it is a precious balme, that hath sweetenesse in the boxe, whence it comes, sweetnesse and vertue in the bodie, whereto it comes: it is a golden chaine, that linkes the toongs, and eares, and harts of writers and readers, each to other.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
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The critics didn't have a good word for/to say about the performance.
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Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.
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Is the word accentuate a good word to tell in morning assembly?
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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And what's wrong with putting in a good word for your cobber?
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Less rain would be good in the afternoon/evening, so if anyone has any pull with the weather folks, put in a good word, would you?
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Bearing in mind that one excised section of the Wasteland referred to a waiter and some unnatural practices with a dog, I think ‘depraved’ is probably a very good word for it.
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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
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Neither of them had a good word to say about the carpenter ant or the Japanese beetle, much less the curculio weevil.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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I cried for each time I had a school report that had not even one good word to say about him on it.
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If you see the captain could you put in a good word for me?
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Good words are worth much and cost little.
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the film had good word-of-mouth publicity
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Yet he impressed on all he said, on good words and bad alike, a marked autochthonic quality, as of the self-raised spontaneous products of some miraculous soil, from which prodigies and portents spring.
Voltaire
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Now I saw in my Dream that he spake many good words unto them, whereby they were greatly gladded.
The Pilgrim’s Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 1-99
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What has been so gratifying is knowing – and seeing – the results of what would become a personal lifelong mission to spread the good word about hunting to other women while also doing my best to convince men that yes, women belonged beside them in the field.
Guest Blogger: Kathy Etling On Why Women Hunt
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Good words and ill deeds decieve wise men and fools.
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A kind neighbour with a good word for all, Mae was highly thought of by all who knew her.
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I do not think there has been one French leader who had a good word for the tea drinkers of this world: they are lumped together and seen as effete Englishmen, no doubt to the horror of the Irish; and other heavy tea drinkers.
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She never is wanting to give me a good word, and took occasion to lanch out in my praise, she says.
Pamela
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Good words are worth much and cost little.
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He doesn't have / seldom has a good word to say for Britain.
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Aurelian owns a huge latifundium; it can doubtless use an extra workman, if I put in a good word, and the senator will cover up any little irregularities for me.
The Boat of a Million Years
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'The hungry sheep,' as some one says somewhere, 'look up and are not fed;' and the same poet well describes your pipings as being on wretched straw pipes that are 'scrannel' -- a good word.
The Path to Rome
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Well,so I wish when the things become elucidative to me and my will manifest,I will put some good words here.
Imprisoned video blogger accepts award « raincoaster
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To be a good Scrabble player you need good word knowledge and to be a good speller.
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Good words are worth much and cost little.
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Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.
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Out of the rigours of this harsh clime emerged a religion of stark simplicity which enjoined good thoughts, good words and good deeds, and respect for the environment.
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If you happen to have a film that has legs and good word of mouth, and you do a serious spend on it, then you stand a chance at a breakaway hit.
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A funeral is a solemn rite of passage, and since the days of ancient civilization, the eulogy has been a speech of good words for the dead.
The Last Laugh
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Neither of them had a good word to say about the carpenter ant or the Japanese beetle, much less the curculio weevil.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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He shall have all the good words that may be given, [2082] a proper man, and 'tis pity he hath no preferment, all good wishes, but inexorable, indurate as he is, he will not prefer him, though it be in his power, because he is indotatus, he hath no money.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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There were also good words for the breeze that has come to replace the stench.
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The first time I attended Book Expo was so long ago it was called ABA, the American Booksellers Association pause to shout out to my fellow curmudgeons who don't believe that mashing together a non-word like "Expo" with a perfectly good word like "Book" is an improvement on either one, nor that putting the mashup next to "America" can turn the latter into an adjective.
Peter Ginna: An Insider's Guide to the Characters of BookExpo America
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Good words and ill deeds decieve wise men and fools.
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If you see the captain could you put in a good word for me?
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And you are right, it is a good word in it’s original meaning and it is regrettable that the “zombie” connotations have overwhelmed it’s meaning when there isn’t an adequate replacement educable, educatable & teachable have their own connotations.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Adderall
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Don't you have one good word to say for her?
