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Example sentences for "great boon"

  • We were all truly thankful for this great boon.

  • This rain is a great boon to me, as it will give me both feed and water for my horses, and if it has gone to the north-west it will save me a great deal of time looking for water.

  • Considering the very distressing character of pile tumors, it is a great boon that we have at last found safe, painless, and positively certain means for their cure.

  • We regard it as a great boon to our patients, and never withhold it in any case where it can be employed to prevent suffering, its use being attended with no danger and followed by no bad or disagreeable results.

  • We regard it as a great boon to our patients, and never withhold it in any case where it can be employed to prevent suffering.

  • It is a great boon to suffering humanity.

  • As this may mean a run of eighty or a hundred miles, and in war time may mean a whole day, or possibly two days on the French railways, the motor run is in itself a great boon.

  • Vimy Ridge 129 A great boon to British Tommy--a Y.

  • Richards had found the Red Triangle huts at Havre a great boon, and on entering the church at the evening service, handed his minister a little paper packet containing coins.

  • In what other town in this whole republic would a pair of pantaloons be thus left in the complete power of a total stranger, a stranger, too, to whom pantaloons were a great boon?

  • If you could convince every one of the utility of Communism, it would certainly be a great boon--to you.

  • It is a pleasant and profitable study, and to the man who has married rich and does not need to work, the amusement of busting geology with the Bible, or busting the Bible with geology is indeed a great boon.

  • One man from Kansas writes me: "Your recovery was indeed a great boon to me.

  • If this can be avoided or abbreviated it will be a great boon.

  • I should have said relative to the cows of this State that if the owners would work their butter more and their cows less, they would confer a great boon on the consumer of both.

  • The successful combating of cattle disease by the Bureau of Agriculture has been a great boon to them, as has the suppression of the liquor traffic.

  • This alone was a great boon to its Igorot inhabitants, who little by little were helped to assert their rights as they gained greater confidence in their American lieutenant-governor and learned to go to him freely with their troubles.

  • Indeed, the opportunity to engage in it would be a great boon to them in many parts of the islands where they now lack profitable employment.

  • With these and other local devices we were able to get the men bathed at their own billets, which was a great boon.

  • This was a great boon, as it enabled us to get breakfast before starting considerably later than would otherwise have been necessary.

  • Where cooking for the trenches was a matter of some difficulty, as in this sector, it was a great boon to be able to get such excellent supplies of hot tea and other comforts as they provided.

  • The simple remedies we brought have been a great boon.

  • It will be a great boon to the people if we can get one to come.

  • But it is a great boon to the people to have them, and the children munch them all day long, eating little else.

  • Having the run of his cabin was a great boon.

  • It was a great boon having a cabin to fall back on, and when fatigued to be able to rest on a comfortable bed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great boon" 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:
    great actor; great alarm; great beauty; great boon; great bunch; great consequence; great credit; great danger; great difference; great difficulty; great estate; great heights; great length; great mercy; great nuisance; great people; great plenty; great portion; great shock; great speed; great strength; great wave; great weight; great white; greater variety; plain enough