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Example sentences for "what good"

  • What good can it do the community to keep such people together?

  • What good can it do God to keep people married who hate each other?

  • What good can it, by any possibility, do?

  • What good is a treaty made by Beroes with Egyptian priests?

  • If any man wished to raise to himself a pyramid he would pile up a small heap of stones and abandon his labor after some hours had passed, asking: "What good is this to me?

  • Tell me, worthiness," inquired Rameses on a sudden, "what good comes of these treasures shut up in darkness?

  • What good, then, can their labors result in?

  • What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated?

  • But," says one, "what good can I do by signing the pledge?

  • If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?

  • What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works?

  • Even if you were to kill me, what good would it do you?

  • What good does he do in each twenty-four hours?

  • What good was it to study the chances for or against him?

  • What good would it do to find out why he was so peculiar, and what it was that he took so much pains to conceal?

  • What good fortune is worth the pleasure of your visit tome?

  • Your Cromwell, what good could it do him to be 'noticed' by noisy crowds of people?

  • In fact, if a man have any purpose reaching beyond the hour and day, meant to be found extant next day, what good can it ever be to promulgate lies?

  • Though all men walk by them, what good is it?

  • My dear woman," said her husband loftily, "what good would it do the poor beast to end his days here instead of up yonder?

  • Sure, what good 'ud it do anybody to go burnin' that beautiful hay?

  • What good would a bucket or two of wather do on that?

  • What good would it do her to know who he was, from whence he came, or whither he was going?

  • She was very sure that she had heard sobs; but if the child had at last been able to sleep, what good would it do to awaken her?

  • Since love is right, and is the fate of all, what good could be gained by making martyrs of them both?

  • When destiny intends you cards like these, What good of skill and preconcerted play?

  • From oracles, what good speech To mortals, beside, is sent?

  • What good of giving knowledge if, because O' the manner of the gift, its profit fail?

  • What good would it have done to raise an opposition that would have only pained a person who was already sorely tried in other ways?

  • Suppose we put things back a hundred years, what good shall we have done?

  • Of what good was it thinking over the past?

  • What good can a fat man like that do to you?

  • As she has quite made up her mind that she cannot accept the honour you propose to do her, what good would it serve?

  • Of what good could it be, seeing that she would rather throw herself into the Thames than marry him?

  • What good would a lone piano do, when the whole house and the whole family atmosphere were at fault?

  • What good would it do him to force his way in and make her come out, unless he intended to kill Cowperwood?

  • What good could be accomplished, arguing with him here in this way?

  • And if I had staid to cry out, what good could I have done--only to be swept away?

  • What good would it be for me to know things thus, and let the vile wrong continue?

  • What good to stir anew such sadness, even if a poor weak thing like me could move its mystery?

  • What good they do they do in a material way.

  • What good could he or any other man possibly do there?

  • I have been sent by the Church to do what good I am able.

  • What good duz it do to scatter a few loaves of bread to the hungry while the Liquor Power and the mills of Monopoly are grindin' out hundreds and thousands of tramps and paupers every year?


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what 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:
    gude lord; her power; since when; what chance; what effect; what had; what happens; what harm; what have you been; what importance; what made; what might have been; what name; what news; what others; what remains; what respects; what say; what she; what strange; what way; what wilt; whatever happens; whatever might; whatever rank; whatsoever things are lovely