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Example sentences for "make good"

  • Maybe he'll give your brother a chance to make good.

  • Why should I say he can't at least have his chance to make good?

  • We understand each other now and he is willing, always provided that Maud is willing, too, to give me my opportunity to make good.

  • An Intimation of a Way found in Europe, to make good China-Dishes.

  • Sidenote: Selling a New Feeling] "If you will lend me ten thousand dollars, and I make good my promises to you, your new experience with me will go a long way toward restoring your lost faith in men.

  • I'll take my pick of the lot, and keep the names and addresses of two or three others in case he doesn't make good.

  • Chances come to you continually to make good impressions on the minds of the men and women you meet from day to day.

  • He is apt to feel limp in courage when he turns his back on the lost chance to make good, and faces the necessity of starting the selling process all over again with another prospect.

  • He'll make good," soliloquized the supervisor.

  • But young John got the idee that he owed it to hisself to make good where he started as a cow-hand.

  • And Lorry had asked nothing of fortune save a chance to make good.

  • The crowd hooted and called to Shoop to make good.

  • All existing debts were simply cancelled; and the first business now was to make good as far as practicable the injury done by these acts of violence.

  • Consequently man cannot make ill use of hope which attains God, as neither can he make ill use of moral virtue which attains the reason, because to attain thus is to make good use of virtue.

  • A man is bound to make good use of the talent bestowed on him, according to the opportunities afforded by time, place, and other circumstances, as stated above.

  • It belongs to a virtuous man not only to make good use of his matter or instrument, but also to provide opportunities for that good use.

  • It belongs to liberality to make good use of riches as such, because riches are the proper matter of liberality.

  • Teaching should not be accompanied with a flute or any artificial instrument such as the harp or anything else of this kind: but only with such things as make good hearers.

  • But we must work hard to make good wages.

  • Lars was glad of the chance to make good again, and he willingly agreed to go.

  • You will find timbers and planks enough in the piles from the old barns to make good bridges, and the men can do the work.

  • They had been crowded as fast as possible to make good weight, and they went to market at an average of 290 pounds a head.

  • The herd was doing excellently for mid-winter,--the yield amounted to a daily average of 840 pounds throughout the month, and I was able to make good my contract with the middleman.

  • It was a part of his business to get everything down, real or imitation; and even an accident that imperiled human life might make good "stuff.

  • Personally, I think they'll make good to-day.

  • The Sand which is found near Naples call'd Pozzolana is so proper to make good Mortar, if it be mixed with Lime, that not only in the ordinary Fabricks, but even in the very bottom of the Sea it grows into a wonderful hard Body.

  • I tell you, I'm not going near her house till I think I've a show to make good on this dam.

  • I've been waiting for you to make good on the dam.

  • I've got to make good, and she won't promise anything even if I succeed.

  • You're going back to-morrow and dig in to make good on the dam.

  • But I'm not asking anything--only in case I make good.

  • College lads should have brains enough to know what they want and what they do not want, and it is impertinent for any fellow to go around trying to make Good Templars of men who enjoy a glass of beer or wine now and then.

  • I know I have a record as a base runner in a ball game, but the best base runners are not always able to make good showings in races.

  • Why, you see I have learned how to make good time," chuckled Danny.

  • Of a resolve to make good by any means open to man.

  • Guess I've got that yellow streak a feller needs to make good," he went on, his gravity thawing under a shadowy smile.

  • But they're near enough to make good readin'.

  • She would only too gladly place anything that is hers to make good, but there is nothing left; it all went.

  • He saw other things as well; these he hoped to make good in the near future, but this--but this!

  • I unqualifiedly say to you and to the American people that I lost millions of dollars more in what you call the Amalgamated swindle than I made, and that I lost trying to make good my word to the Amalgamated subscribers.

  • As proof of this, witness how I voluntarily gave back the millions I had secured, to make good.

  • There is often an open-mindedness among the common people that is not vitiated by the grip of vested interests upon their unwarped judgments, and the people can be trusted in the long run to make good.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make good" 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:
    definite proportions; drawing nearer; high misdemeanor; make amends; make arrangements; make choice; make clear; make discoveries; make firm; make game; make head; make him; make inquiries; make itself; make less; make one; make preparations; make progress; make restitution; make smooth; make sure; make war; make what; makes mention; makes them; three cloves