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Example sentences for "good income"

  • Perhaps it is rather to Bulstrode's credit that he privately offered me compensation for an old injury: he offered to give me a good income to make amends; but I suppose you know the disagreeable story?

  • He had his half-century before him instead of behind him, and he had come to Middlemarch bent on doing many things that were not directly fitted to make his fortune or even secure him a good income.

  • Shuttlecock had ridiculed the very idea of love, and had told him that everything else was to be thrown to the dogs in pursuit of a good income.

  • He has a good income of his own, while Houston was little better than a beggar.

  • Having a good income of his own, he thought much of it.

  • He can give her a home of her own, and a good income.

  • I am sure of a good income of my own; and if she had not a penny, why, so much the better.

  • He knows the value of a good income as well as any body.

  • Nevertheless, but for his astuteness in buying land and in building he would not have acquired such a good income.

  • Now, he possessed an avenue of desirable villa residences in the suburbs which brought him in a good income, and which, by reason of their situation, were never empty.

  • She looked a quaint old-fashioned gentlewoman of the sort likely to possess a good income, for it seemed that no pauper would have dared to dress in so shabby and old-fashioned a manner.

  • The woman who fits herself to be a food expert may make a good income as a writer or lecturer, provided she has the necessary gifts as well as knowledge and skill.

  • For the worker who is well established in her employment and has a good income, home dressmaking and millinery become questions of health, time and energy.

  • If we reckon the number of weeks throughout the year during which payment is received, it appears that few actresses earn a good income.

  • He was careful in his dress, but not so as to betray the care that he took; he was imperturbable in temper, though restless in spirit; and the one strong passion of his life was the desire of a good income at the cost of the public.

  • It is astonishing how easy it is to accumulate three or four hundred pounds' worth of little bills, when one lives before the world in a good house and in visible possession of a good income.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good income" 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 camp; good collection; good deeds; good dinner; good doctor; good family; good ground; good instance; good journey; good knowledge; good lawyer; good match; good patriot; good repair; good report; good right; good roads; good sense; good shepherd; good sister; good society; good speed; good store; good water; good workman; goodly company