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Example sentences for "perfectly good"

  • They're a perfectly good pair, as far as I can see; and they're mighty comfortable.

  • It made a perfectly good water-scene, with a sweep, a chain, a bucket and all.

  • Pop could use a drawbridge in one scene, and, in the next, convert it into a perfectly good cow-barn.

  • Although it is perfectly good form to hold a wedding reception in a ballroom, a breakfast in a private house, no matter how simple, has greater distinction than the most elaborate collation in a public establishment.

  • And I believe that every one will be a perfectly good plan," said Roger magnanimously.

  • My idea is a perfectly good one," insisted Roger, strolling in.

  • This is a perfectly good scheme--Grandfather said so.

  • And with that she makes a rush, lets out a giggle or two, grabs Old Hickory in a perfectly good hug, and kisses him twice on his bald spot.

  • You'd most thought, with a perfectly good nephew to blow in some of her surplus on, she'd made a fam'ly pet of J.

  • It's a perfectly good name," he conceded, "but there must be more of it.

  • He went on conversationally: "The reason I've never offered to be a brother to any girl before is that I've got a perfectly good sister of my own.

  • The cellar was a perfectly good one, as cellars go.

  • I shall certainly break down the door if you don't; and it's a perfectly good door, with a nice polish on it.

  • Also my ring at B suite, third floor, is answered by a perfectly good valet.

  • And if it hadn't been for interruptions like that we might have had a perfectly good time.

  • And I've no doubt you have a perfectly good situation.

  • And just because I'd changed to leather leggins inside the gate you called me back and put me to scrubbing the barracks floor, making me miss my last chance at a matinĂ©e and otherwise queering a perfectly good day.

  • It strikes me, Ernie, as if you'd worked up a perfectly good mystery.

  • That will be a perfectly good contract, if accepted, in spite of the fact that the promised horse is worth more than the promised price.

  • An unenforceable contract is one which in itself is perfectly good as a contract, but because of some rule of law cannot be enforced.

  • Adults, of course, are preferable as witnesses, but an infant is a perfectly good witness, but he should possess sufficient intelligence to be able to appreciate the importance of the act he is witnessing.

  • Else, if what is done is good, but not well done, it will not be perfectly good; wherefore neither will the habit that is the principle of such an act, have the perfect character of virtue.

  • Thus a medicine is perfectly good, if it gives health to a man; but it is imperfect, if it helps to cure him, without being able to bring him back to health.

  • For since virtue is directed to the doing of good works, perfect virtue is that which gives the faculty of doing a perfectly good work, and this consists in not only doing what is good, but also in doing it well.

  • It would be a waste of a perfectly good smile if she doesn't.

  • He quite honestly believed that a woman's chief object in life was to please her male belongings, and it seemed to him a perfectly good arrangement.

  • There may be a perfectly good explanation," said the lawyer.

  • Why should Braden who had two perfectly good machines in his office below, go out the back way and bring in a machine from an old shed?

  • Then, deliberately, bitterly, he gave him what is usually regarded as a perfectly good casus belli.

  • But these Indians had a perfectly good alibi.

  • Here it is," says he, draggin' out from under a davenport a perfectly good drum.

  • Maybe it ain't just the thing for a son and heir to spring on a perfectly good father, chucklin' over it besides, but it sounds quite all right to me.

  • And while he didn't make McNutt eat his words or anything like that, he gave him to understand that a perfectly good son-in-law wasn't expected to be such a shark at shopping for wool.

  • I, starin' at what she's done to a perfectly good piece of stretched canvas.

  • I made him start at the beginning and explain every item, while we munched fried-egg sandwiches as we went over reports, sorted out old letters, and marked up a perfectly good map of Minnesota.

  • And we'd have had a perfectly good chat if it hadn't been for Doris.

  • That's my idea of a perfectly good boss,--one that gives his job absent treatment.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perfectly 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:
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