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Example sentences for "good form"

  • President, rose, shaded with salmon, very large, and of good form.

  • Therefore those who would be letter perfect must practise the rules of good form at all times and places.

  • This is a good form to give, when the liver is acting badly.

  • It was nearly ten o'clock when I arrived at Monsieur Vauvert's; the company rarely assembled before that hour, for the petty bourgeois try to mimic the nobility, and think it good form to arrive very late at a party.

  • But since chance had brought me into her presence, I determined to make the most of it, and, good form or not, to try to obtain a dance with her, so that I might speak with her.

  • The people who give them do not know how to receive company; but they insist upon having company all the time, because it is good form to give soirĂ©es, and in these days no one is willing to lag behind his neighbor.

  • Perhaps it might be more prudent to place them at the covers, but it would hardly be good form, as there would be in that case several of the guests without favors.

  • Such costumes are, however, not in good form in the city.

  • For skating, even at a rink on artificial ice, golf costume or mufti is good form.

  • The dogs are in good form still, and came up well with their loads this morning (night temp.

  • The dogs have quite recovered since the fine weather--they are quite in good form again.

  • There is very little to record--the horses are going on well, all are in good form, at least for the moment.

  • The fact may have conciliated some of our own contemners of "good form.

  • Neither morality, nor friendship, nor anything like sense of "good form" could be likely to hold him back.

  • They are not, in their earlier stages, engaging to the old-fashioned believer in "good form.

  • This would not be good form or respectable.

  • Trade, property, business, respectability, good form; these were the shibboleth they worshipped.

  • But there's nothing so fettering, so despicable as good form.

  • Sometimes a horse of good breed, as well as of good form, has never had the advantages of a thorough training, or he may be worn out by excessive work.

  • It is unnecessary to add that the knife must never be put in his mouth; nor is it good form to use the knife unnecessarily.

  • No dinner parties are given on Sunday, or, at least, they are not considered as good form in good society.

  • It is a good form to have the address of the writer printed at the top of the sheet, especially for all business letters.

  • It is not now considered in good form to talk about these contributions.

  • A good form of marker can have one or two pointed rules for the due care and preservation of books printed on a conspicuous part.

  • This may be either fixed or movable, and a good form can be constructed of ornamental ironwork, surmounted by a polished oak or walnut rail, about four to six inches wide, in the style of illustration (Fig.

  • A good form of work book for a library where the staff is not departmental is shown in the ruling below, which can be adjusted to meet the conditions in large libraries.

  • Pears and cherries need the least; cutting back the ends of limbs enough to keep the trees in good form, with the removal of an occasional branch for the purpose of letting in light and air, is all the pruning they will require.

  • The tree is of good form, very vigorous and healthy.

  • In the third place, culture will be favoured by all those people who know their own character to be offensive or tiresome, and wish to draw a veil of so-called "good form" over them.

  • The fashionable desire of "good form" is bound up with a loathing of man's inner nature: the one is to conceal, the other to be concealed.

  • They sin wilfully, deliberately choosing to act as cads in toadying compliance with what the monied cads whose society they crave are pleased to consider "good form.

  • What we call "good form," the unwritten law which governs certain classes of the Briton, savours of the dull and glacial; but there lurks within it a core of virtue.

  • Good form, like any other religion, starts well with some ethical truth, but soon gets commonised and petrified till we can hardly trace its origin, and watch with surprise its denial and contradiction of the root idea.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good form" 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:
    each article; good and faithful servant; good case; good color; good distance; good farm; good feller; good figure; good housekeeper; good hunting; good joke; good looks; good morals; good music; good natured; good reading; good record; good school; good size; good soldiers; good spoonful; good stock; good times; good white; good wine; such circumstances