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Example sentences for "good style"

  • Some French moved forward to take possession of the bridge and were repulsed by two Rifle companies in good style.

  • The Chasseurs Britanniques, a regiment in our service in the 7th Division, principally composed of renegade Frenchmen, was charged by a body of the enemy's cavalry in line, and repulsed them in good style.

  • Sidenote: 12th] A body of the enemy's infantry moved against the 1st Division near Sobral, but were repulsed in good style, leaving a number of dead.

  • Colonel Beckwith, a most gallant and clever soldier, saw this frightful mistake and ordered us to retake the wall and hill instantly, which we did in good style, but suffered severely in men and officers.

  • The stag went off in good style, and out of hundreds of horsemen, not above a dozen were able to keep their seats, but a number of fellows were on the lurk to take care of the stray horses.

  • The art of river rowing is capable of a high degree of elegance, and few sights are more pleasing to a lover of graceful forms than that of a crew of fine lads, or young men, rowing well together and in good style.

  • The rower should, as far as possible, take some good oarsman for his model, and endeavour to imitate him in every respect, which is the only mode of acquiring a good style.

  • The young rower should be at once shown how to free his oar in this way, and then he may pull with that freedom from restraint which is necessary to produce a good style.

  • The enemy returned the fire from our batteries in good style, and there was a regular row.

  • We can produce nevertheless several names of those who laid the foundations at least, and indeed furnished examples, of good style; some of them among the greatest, for other merits, in our literature.

  • If the stroke has been correct up to the moment of impact, the follow-through will come almost as naturally as a good style will be born of correctly executed strokes.

  • A good style is almost certain to follow when this is done.

  • For instance, I read lately that a good style results in good golf.

  • Miel, of Antwerp, who having imbibed a good style of colouring from Vandyke, came to Rome and frequented the school of Sacchi.

  • His habit of copying the best Venetian and Lombard pictures, had given him a good style of colour, and a sufficiently correct design, which he improved in Rome, where he resided many years.

  • This will not be beside the point, for although the buildings are neither beautiful nor in good style, but only very large and magnificent, yet they are none the less worthy of some consideration.

  • Besides these he did many other things in a good style, but without in the least departing from the manner of his master.

  • Signor Sbigoli, first tenor at the Pergolo theatre, who had also given his assistance at the first concert, again sang two airs in a good style, and with much exertion, but with little voice.

  • The white ladies of the agency, some of whom were unmarried, proposed to adorn the bride, while the employes furnished enough Sunday clothes to dress the husband in good style.

  • They cultivated these few acres in good style, and found time to labor for father and other farmers, for which they received good remuneration.

  • One of the first constituents of a good style is what Coleridge calls "progressive transition," which implies a dynamic force, a propulsive movement, behind the pen.

  • In a good style, on whatever degree it stands, there must be a full marriage between word and thought, so clean an adjustment of expression to material as to leave no rough edges or nodes.

  • It is natural that Mr. Grandcourt should wish me to live in a good style of house in your neighborhood, and I cannot decline.

  • There's a bad style of humbug, but there is also a good style--one that oils the wheels and makes progress possible.

  • The flowers are numerous and loosely racemed at the top of a slender smooth scape; they have five small purple petals, five stamens, and several 2-parted stigmas.

  • Pains will be needed, of course, as we pursue the object of a good style.

  • To speak about "a good style" to those who think so, may seem perhaps little else than a recommendation to bid for human applause in the line of literature.

  • Chapter V Style "How can I acquire a good style of writing?

  • I have put clearness and naturalness as the two attributes of good style.

  • You cannot acquire a good style; only a bad style can be acquired.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good style" 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 aunt; good captain; good chap; good circumstances; good citizenship; good deeds; good example; good father; good fellowship; good for; good knights; good length; good lump; good offices; good paper; good parte; good port; good portrait; good record; good recovery; good seed; good sense; good spirit; good stuff; good supply; good title