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Example sentences for "good portion"

  • Although this State is the most civilized in Brazil, yet a good portion of its western territory is still practically a terra incognita, so that even the best official figures are mere guess-work.

  • While my men slept I sat up a good portion of the night developing all those plates--quite successfully too--and trying to clean and fix up the cameras again for use the next day.

  • A good portion of the following day was wasted trying to recover four animals that had escaped.

  • Here a good portion of the legend has to be suppressed.

  • Our party are now furnished with 358 par of Mockersons exclusive of a good portion of Dressed leather, they are also previded with Shirts Overalls Capoes of dressed Elk Skins for the homeward journey.

  • Our party are now furnished with 358 pair of Mockersons exclusive of a good portion of dressed leather.

  • On reflection, I think we will push Bragg with all our strength to-morrow, and try if we cannot out off a good portion of his rear troops and trains.

  • I had my staff with me, a good portion of whom were in the room during the whole of the interview.

  • The old and physically disabled furnished a good portion of these.

  • He was selected as an Elector on the Harrison ticket for President in 1840, and as such stumped over a good portion of the State.

  • The only other passenger in the stage for a good portion of the distance was a Kentuckian, on his way home from Missouri.

  • That the latter in the end succeeded in squandering a good portion of their joint assets, besides wrecking his own health, is not to be wondered at.

  • It is a long story and will take you a good portion of the evening to listen to it.

  • He would go West, to Texas, and when he had lived over a good portion of his life, he would write to his uncle and ask him if he might return.

  • He didn't have as many blankets now as he did when he first struck the mountains, for he had left a good portion of them in the gully.

  • The inventor should see that a good portion of the stock is subscribed for and the amount actually paid into the treasury of the company before making the assignment.

  • The patentee may sell a portion of his stock, if he desires, but should also retain a good portion of it to show his own confidence in the business.

  • Quite often the patentee can find enough idle capital in his immediate neighborhood to float a good portion of the stock.

  • The weather was now clear and bright and the wind had swept a good portion of the river clear of snow.

  • As he supplied his parent Dave told a good portion of his story, although he went into few details.

  • We paid it one thorough visit, and sat in the seats, and scaled the upper heights, and looked down on the spot where tragedy and horror had been employed as means of pleasure for a good portion of the world's history.

  • A good portion of the walls and some of the towers still stand.

  • A good portion of the Auvergne remains to us the "Land of Squatty Pitchers," because in every bedroom the water pitcher was a very short, very corpulent and saucy-looking affair that amused us each evening with its absurd shape.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good portion" 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:
    after marriage; good butter; good chance; good colour; good creature; good deal; good friend; good friends; good garden; good ground; good hand; good hands; good meat; good report; good repute; good right; good seaman; good sense; good shepherd; good speed; good spirit; good thoughts; good times; good uncle; goods were; working drawings