How to Use a good many in a Sentence

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• On a hill overlooking the harbor was a small cemetery, with a good many of the surnames on the tombstones the same as current residents.
  — Walter Nicklin, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
• Get ready for a good many games against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2020
• There were a good many non-phonies scattered around the dining room.
  — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• For a good many commercial vehicles, one overnight charge may be enough for the next day’s work.
  — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2021
• The whisky spent a good many years in ex-bourbon casks before being reshaped in Oloroso Spanish oak.
  — Dan Dunn, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2021
• This topic is among my favorites and the focus of a good many history articles over the years.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Nov. 2020
• But after World War I, modernists abolished the axis, as well as a good many thrones and altars, and replaced it with the idea of flowing space.
  — Michael J. Lewis, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
• But statistics show a good many adults over 30 are binge drinkers, and the problem is on the rise, especially among women and adults over 65.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 13 June 2022
• Our national timeout has ridded a good many of us of the daily busy-ness that kept us from stopping to reflect much.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2021
• That the academy’s directors branch ignored Sorkin is a sign that a good many people are already hip to this knowledge.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2021
• There remain a good many obstacles to making any trades in the NBA before January.
  — Mark Deeks, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• Further adding to a visit's pleasure, easy-to-use electronic voice wands provide recorded details about a good many of the objects.
  — Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2021
• Luhrmann’s style annoys and infuriates some viewers — and a good many critics — but has grown steadily popular over the decades.
  — Vulture, 9 Nov. 2022
• The odd tenderness toward Communism and Communist causes, that seems to be felt by a good many men of the foundations and colleges, might be explained along the same lines.
  — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• This will likely benefit a good many wealthy home and resort owners but has not been highly publicized.
  — Alan Gassman, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• But a good many critics sniffed, and there was a lingering sense that a better musical was waiting to be unearthed from all the theatrical layers.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Hardly any of them had been to Syria since the uprising began; a good many seemed to be getting their information mainly from Twitter.
  — James Harkin, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
• However, a good many deer have made their homes on and around residents’ properties along Highland Road, especially south of that area.
  — cleveland, 2 Sep. 2020
• Like his American counterpart, the equally prolific Stephen King, Campbell has been providing dark and addictive pleasures for a good many years.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
• Politicians and pundits will spend a good many months arguing over what could have been done differently and who specifically is to blame for the fact that so many opportunities to improve people’s lives were pissed away.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 26 Mar. 2022
• Similar two-part apologies or restatements-of-aims were issued by the presidents of Harvard University, Middlebury College, and a good many other schools.
  — David Bromwich, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• And horror fiction, as practiced by Malerman, Tremblay and a good many others, continues to serve as a bleak but appropriate vehicle for conveying the dangers and distortions of our increasingly incomprehensible age.
  — Bill Sheehan, Washington Post, 7 July 2020

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024