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Example sentences for "good example"

  • No thoughts troubled them, either of mammon or murder: so long before the meditative trio up-stairs, they had set a good example, and fallen asleep.

  • The Grey Friars at Lynn, where the tower is hexagonal, is a good example.

  • Of the convents of the Carmelite or White Friars we have a good example in the Abbey of Hulne, near Alnwick, the first of the order in England, founded A.

  • Abdur Rahman's attitude at this critical juncture is a good example of his political sagacity.

  • The battle of 1189, fought on the ground to the east of Acre, affords a good example of battles of the Crusades.

  • The story belongs to the class of what may be called "accumulative" stories, of which "The House that Jack built" is a good example.

  • The story in our text is not a good example of Hahn's Form.

  • A good example of this class is Pitrè, No.

  • It is not a good example, to say the least of it; and if there is a class of men in the community to whom we have some right to look for a good example, it is the class chosen and set apart to the work of saving human souls.

  • They need repression in the matter of wine-drinking, not encouragement--a good example of abstinence in their minister, and not enticement to drink through his exhibition of liberty.

  • Of the former the Cheddar Caves and Wookey Hole are the most remarkable; and a good example of the latter is the Devil's Punch Bowl near E.

  • It is a good example of a mediaeval granary, and is said to be of the same age as the N.

  • A stiff clayey soil offers a good example of the disadvantage of over-retentiveness.

  • A good example of the absorptive capacity of a soil containing a large quantity of vegetable matter is furnished by peat-bogs, which, sponge-like, can absorb enormous quantities of water.

  • It furnishes, in fact, a good example of the difficulty which exists in the case of many manures, whose action is chiefly indirect, of fully understanding their influence on the soil and on the crop.

  • A good example of the amount of heat that accompanies fermentation, or decay of vegetable matter, is seen in the case of rotting farmyard manure.

  • A somewhat later play, The Mummy and the Humming Bird, by Mr. Isaac Henderson, contains a good example of over-elaborate preparation.

  • Nevertheless, the very obviousness of the considerations involved makes this a good example of the importance of discovering just the right point at which to raise the curtain.

  • I am not claiming superiority for either method; I merely point to a good example of two different ways of attacking the same problem.

  • A good example in English is A Pair of Spectacles, by Mr. Sydney Grundy, founded on a play by Labiche.

  • When that gentleman asked for the use of a Bible in the house where he was visiting, he was setting a good example.

  • And the lesson we are here taught is that we should always set a good example by doing what we know to be right, and then, like a candle shining in a dark place, we shall be useful wherever we go.

  • The definition from Bagchot on page 58 is a good example.

  • A good example of the careful distinctions which must be made in defining a legal term is found in Daniel Webster's famous argument in the White Murder Case, of which an extract will be found below.

  • For Cranmer was a very moderate man, and even restrained the Protestant clergy from violently abusing the unreformed religion--as they very often did, and which was not a good example.

  • He was a favourite with the people for his showy manners; and the people were a good example to him in the constancy of their attachment.

  • It is dreadful to observe how long a bad example will be followed; but, it is encouraging to know that a good example is never thrown away.

  • It is a good example of a unit character.

  • Mathilda offers a good example of Mary Shelley's methods of revision.

  • This revision is a good example of Mary's frequent improvement of her style by the omission of purple patches.

  • This is a good example of Mary's frequent revision for the better by the omission of the obvious and expository.

  • The church and accompanying buildings date from 1850 and were designed by Butterfield; they are a good example of nineteenth-century Gothic and are placed in a fine situation.

  • The interior is a good example of the change from round to pointed, the pure Norman of the east end gradually changing to Early English at the west.

  • The provision relating to direct taxes is a good example.

  • The Philadelphia City Hall Building affords a good example of how far this lack of local responsibility may sometimes carry the legislature in the exercise of local powers, and in the imposition of financial burdens on cities.

  • The state of Ohio furnishes a good example of the practical nullification of a constitutional provision by the legislature through the abuse of its power of classification.

  • A good example of this institution is given by Mr. Clark's publication on the Soke of Rothley in Lincolnshire[846].


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good example" 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 action; good angel; good appetite; good brother; good business; good character; good degree; good dishes; good estate; good example; good housekeeper; good judgment; good measure; good one; good painter; good paper; good policy; good reading; good rider; good sense; good stead; good teacher; good wind; good writers; none local long form; water through