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Example sentences for "good bit"

  • British instinct that all common woes have their origin there; "if it is, I shall be so glad that I happen to have a good bit put by just now.

  • Still, we have gained a good bit on them, sir.

  • She is certainly a good bit lower in the water than she was," the first officer agreed.

  • But that gap brought a good bit of trouble to Larry and his friend.

  • But still they love to hear him praise them, and they swallow a good bit of what he says, like so many children.

  • Then she said in a low voice, "I'm glad you don't mind her; she would try me a good bit.

  • Doesn't it want to be put into repair a good bit?

  • After that, madam, I was changed; yes, a good bit.

  • Oh, she's a good bit altered; there's something in her now.

  • The vessel is sure to lurch over a good bit, and it takes more sea-weather legs than yours to keep their footing at such a time.

  • But as I've said before, I can tell a good bit about a man from the way he gives me his glass, and he was in a perfect frenzy of rage.

  • He depended on me a good bit--the old doctor did--and that winter he was pretty feeble.

  • I got a good bit of gossip from Miss Cobb, who had had her hair cut short after a fever and used to come out early in the morning and curl it all over her head, heating the curler on the fire log.

  • The royal families of Europe have a good bit of unpleasant notoriety themselves occasionally.

  • There'll be considerable damage done if we have the reg'lar scalin' ladders; the teeth can't fail to tear away a good bit of the woodwork.

  • I allow we'll work it, lad; but you must grow a good bit 'twixt now and then.

  • Jerry Walters: "The Amateur has got a good bit of spirit in him, and that's what I like to see.

  • Bedad, he must have left her a good bit," agreed Pat meditatively, "and she desarves it all.

  • I won't say as he hasn't been ill a good bit.

  • Tha' an' me are a good bit alike," he said.

  • Tha'st old enough to be learnin' thy book a good bit now.

  • An' he grunts an' frets a good bit when he's bein' settled into his chair.

  • It has been covered up and hidden away a good bit by sin.

  • There was a good bit of talk back and forth, and questions asked.

  • There has been a good bit of teaching about "God's sovereignty".

  • They're cut up a good bit, but I've had to stop the engines, and they're clinging all round the after part.

  • They seem to understand you better than they do me--you being, of course, a good bit nearer to the angels than I am.

  • We may think a good bit of each other, but that's no reason why we might not be a couple of plague-spots in a sinless world like this.

  • There was some further glozing over of the putrid fact, a good bit of it, and Tom sat back in his chair and listened, outwardly respectful, inwardly hot-hearted and contemptuous.

  • If I knew, I'd be a good bit easier in my mind.

  • I was a good bit of a kid a year ago; tough in some spots and fearfully and wonderfully raw in others.

  • I can do business that way, too; as a matter of fact, I did do a good bit more of it last year than you knew anything about.

  • You see old Slowly must have hurt him a good bit, if he shut his jaws together right hard, as Jimmy said he did, for Mr. Crow declares that he could bite off the end of an oak stick and not strain himself very much.

  • It is a lot of hours to wait, and I would give a good bit to be out of the swamp before it gets dark.

  • We walked about there a good bit, and it ain’t likely they will be able to find out whether there was seven or nine of us.

  • You must have been insensible for a good bit, Tom.

  • The wording of the aim is a matter that gives rise to a good bit of disagreement.

  • To older minds, of course, the story already is a good bit of a stumbling block, and therefore needs to be given thoughtful preparation.

  • Whining and crying, mixed in with the begging, created a good bit of disturbance.

  • This method involves a good bit of resourcefulness, calling at times for what seems an impossible amount of ingenuity.

  • After a good bit of intellectual rummaging about, I find that my random thoughts on prayer fall rather naturally into four main divisions, each capable of expression in a question: I.

  • And we've got a good bit of bone and spermaceti, too," said Captain Rogers.

  • The old bark had settled a good bit, and we were by no means out of danger.

  • The Wavecrest pitched a good bit at the end of her cable.

  • To tell the truth, I was a good bit home-sick.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good bit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good because; good bit; good brother; good character; good company; good conduct; good customer; good farming; good grass; good horses; good large; good lawyer; good nigger; good only; good paper; good report; good results; good sense; good service; good sound; good terms; good times; good truth; good way; goodly portion; passing good