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Example sentences for "good many"

  • I suspect a good many "impromptus" could tell just such a story as the above.

  • That is all very well so far as it goes, but satisfies no man, and makes a good many angry, as I told you on a former occasion.

  • It took him a good many years to build it, and one could see that it was a little out of plumb, and a little wavy in outline, and a little queer and uncertain in general aspect.

  • There are a good many symbols, even, that are more expressive than words.

  • Um; yes, I know; Marcellus had confidence in a good many things, the stock market included.

  • The house and land where he lived is mortgaged up to the handle, and I imagine there are debts, a good many of them.

  • He said that very thing to me a good many times," put in the Judge.

  • Barrels, a good many barrels, were piled upon the wharves and at the end of the building.

  • Frank, when it would have taken a good many promises to other people to drag you away from me.

  • Well, I don't say but what it can, a good many.

  • The Colonel said they bought a good many books, first and last; but apparently they don't take them to the sea-side.

  • Well, we do buy a good many books, first and last," said the Colonel, who probably had in mind the costly volumes which they presented to one another on birthdays and holidays.

  • There will have to be a good many of them.

  • Perhaps it might be argued that one should put all his values into pictures; I've got a good many of mine there.

  • A good many fishes in the brook, and many cray-fish; one of the last with a queer glow- worm head.

  • She had been settled there a good many years by a friend; but there was a son too much in the case.

  • That was why I determined not to try anything in London, for a good many years at least.

  • The French eat a good many fowls--skinny fowls, you know.

  • But I feel certain that he did nor spend three years and nine months in a convict establishment without robbing a good many, and the more difficult he found the task, the more he would enjoy it.

  • It is said that a good many of them were cured of their afflictions.

  • A good many of them have unmistakably artistic gifts!

  • I call him a good many myself, but I'm his daughter.

  • I can get a good many if Cephas gives me wholesale price, with family discount subtracted from that.

  • Precious few new boarders come, and a good many of the old ones quit.

  • I've steered a good many vessels in my time, through traffic and amongst the shoals, and never run afoul of nothin' yet.

  • I am apologizing now for Bud, who had spent a good many months in pushing all thoughts of Marie out of his mind, all hunger for her out of his heart.

  • Marie, you must know, had learned a good many things, one of which was the unwisdom of whetting the curiosity of a curious woman.

  • I shall skip a good many days, of course--though the diary did not, I assure you.

  • The pain still continued, and although she fell asleep and dreamed a good many dreams, there was the pain always in every dream.

  • A good many of the goblins with their creatures escaped from the inundation out upon the mountain.

  • But he had no idea how immense the place was until his eyes had got accustomed to it, which was not for a good many minutes.

  • He knew all the blacks' ways as well as a good many of ours.

  • He does drink, of course; every miserable man, and a good many women as have something to fear or repent of, drink.

  • There's a good many things we all do that don't want talking about.

  • Why," said Ellie, "the lions seem to have eaten a good many of them, for there are very few left now.

  • For a good many people, like old Polonius, have seen all the world, and yet remain little better than children after all.

  • He held very strange theories about a good many things.

  • She heard a good many things, and she guessed a good many more.

  • I did not see much besides a good many graves.

  • In the turtle shell were a good many beads.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good many" 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 advantage; good case; good customer; good dinner; good doctor; good fairy; good folk; good for; good general; good half; good hour; good judgment; good lawyer; good length; good luck; good memory; good opinion; good parte; good qualities; good reading; good result; good style; good table; good times; good truth; good wine