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Example sentences for "good cause"

  • A bad man may have a good cause, and a good man may have a bad cause.

  • The apostle's exhortation to separation from sin, as a good effect of a good cause, viz.

  • He that suffereth for righteousness thus, must also have a good cause.

  • I know that you have done many vile things, and would do more if time were given to you; but the time is denied, Master Æsop, and yet you may serve a good cause in your death.

  • And indeed, it is no small matter to see a people willing in a good cause, for by nature we are unwilling, and naturally we are not set to affect anything that is right, except it be through hypocrisy.

  • And the very law of nature binds every one of us to help another, in a lawful manner, for a good cause.

  • There is good cause to presume that the two wings, the only parts as yet commenced, will be prepared for that purpose at the next session.

  • Much allowance is due to officers employed in each branch of this system, and the more so as there is good cause to believe that each acted under the conviction that he possessed the power which he undertook to exercise.

  • In the concerns which are exclusively internal there is good cause to be satisfied with the result.

  • But you know you like to be robbed for a good cause," chuckled Amy, who chanced to hear these comments.

  • He would be altogether too easy-going to refuse to help Belle, especially in a good cause.

  • It really spoiled the satisfaction she had taken in the fact that her idea, and her radio set, had made much money for a good cause.

  • Besides," Burd Alling said in comment on this, "for a good cause we are all ready and willing to be bunkoed a little.

  • Yet he owned, that those who staid with him must expect and resolve either to die for a good cause, or, which is worse, to live as miserable in the maintaining it as the violence of insulting rebels could make them.

  • If by partial opinion or reverence towards them, however begotten in the minds of men, they strive to overbear or discountenance a good cause, their faults (so far as truth permitteth and need requireth) may be detected and displayed.

  • Fourthly, likewise in defence of truth, and maintenance of a good cause, we may observe that commonly the fairest language is most proper and advantageous, and that reproachful or foul terms are most improper and prejudicial.

  • And even in a good cause, it has well been said: "The truly brave man is not he who fears no danger, but the man whose mind subdues the fear, and braves the danger that nature shrinks from.

  • A man may brave death in a good cause, and not be doing an act of fortitude.

  • It introduces the antipodes to each other, and makes it possible for far-sundered groups to unite even internationally for a good cause.

  • Such are the chance meetings and conversations of friends in all walks of life, and the crowds that gather occasionally to help forward a good cause.

  • At the same time it provides active occupation for a good cause, which is more than can be said of the men's forum.

  • I’m dying in a good cause, sirs, in a good cause, yes!

  • For I’m dying in a good cause, and it’s not I that will cry “Quarter.

  • They have not the humanity to associate themselves with those who are fighting in a good cause because it is good.

  • Jael is a vivid type of the unscrupulous helpers of a good cause, those who employing the weapons and methods of the world would fain be servants of that kingdom in which nothing base, nothing earthly can have place.

  • Jael, a type of the unscrupulous helpers of a good cause.

  • Is not the cause of our country always a good cause?

  • Soldiers must fight, and so must boys, if necessary, in a good cause.

  • Everyone should wish to be able to do them--in a good cause.

  • God give him strength and grace to draw it in good cause!

  • I am glad it is so, for it was in a good cause.

  • I cannot say that I do,' replied Frau von Sigmundskron with all the obstinacy of a good woman thoroughly roused in what she believes to be a good cause.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good cause" 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 appearance; good camping; good conduct; good deeds; good evidence; good flavor; good intentions; good knight; good look; good looks; good match; good meat; good memory; good night; good opportunity; good pace; good pleasure; good prince; good rider; good sister; good soil; good stock; good uncle; good weather; good writers; rich people