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Example sentences for "good reading"

  • Where one person is really interested by music, twenty are pleased by good reading.

  • Good reading is the natural exponent and vehicle of all good things.

  • Where there is one occasion suitable for the exercise of musical talent, there are twenty for that of good reading.

  • While interest in the thought-content is the impelling motive in good reading exercises, lively and natural expression is likewise the proper fruit and outcome of such a motive carried to its proper end.

  • Good reading is not like moving a house, when it is all carried along in one piece.

  • The teacher should occasionally read a passage in the best style for the pupils, not for direct imitation, but to suggest the higher ideals and spirit of good reading.

  • Good reading aloud is almost a lost accomplishment now.

  • This, is not teaching literature nor giving the scholar a love of good reading.

  • Good reading goes at an easy pace, it is neither too fast nor too slow; it neither counts the letters nor omits them, neither jumbles syllables together nor anatomises words.

  • The next requirement of good reading is to learn the relative value of the letters, and the right handling of the syllables, of which words are composed.

  • Partly, perhaps, it is due to an unavoidable self-consciousness in reading his own works; and self-consciousness is the ruin of good reading.

  • Vowels and final consonants are the letters which demand most care and support in good reading.

  • About the first of March I sent cards to the librarians of twenty-five of the leading libraries of the country, asking, "What are you doing to encourage a love of good reading in boys and girls?

  • If teachers did their duty, librarians would not be troubled as to good reading.

  • The better books should be duplicated so as to be on hand when called for; these should be provided in such numbers merely that they can occasionally be had as the "seasoning" to a course of good reading.

  • It embodies answers from twenty-five librarians to the question, "What are you doing to encourage a love of good reading in boys and girls?

  • This system, which seems even more economical than the Massachusetts one, has greatly promoted interest in good reading, and led to the establishment of several local public libraries.

  • General advice about "good reading" is seldom of great service.

  • It does not therefore follow that people are unworthy of public libraries because "the best books are largely let alone"; the question is whether even the second best may not be good reading.

  • Do the other books on the table suggest that she sets a value on good reading as an important element in the training of children even as young as these in the picture?

  • A good reading would be, "Fear the Lord, (pause) and depart from evil.

  • The Third Class To be taught speaking properly and gracefully; which is near a-kin to good reading, and naturally follows it in the studies of youth.

  • For want of good reading, pieces published with a view to influence the minds of men, for their own or the public benefit, lose half their force.

  • The exercises of good reading, and proper speaking, still continued at suitable times.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good reading" 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 appetite; good collection; good deal; good deed; good food; good green; good ground; good horse; good housekeeper; good humour; good husbandry; good journey; good knight; good lieutenant; good novel; good opinion; good record; good remedy; good sense; good sermon; good space; good spoonful; good works; good writers; goodly company; many ages