How to Use be any good in a Sentence

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  • The good news here — if there can be any good news — is that the signs are not subtle.
    Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2022
  • There doesn’t seem to be any good reason for it, because this is a little dead-end street that goes to the ocean.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • If this offense isn’t any good, these Titans won’t be any good.
    Gentry Estes, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Even then, there are no guarantees the vintage is going to be any good.
    Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Photograph: Michael Friberg Most will hear this and think: At that rate, none of the words could possibly be any good.
    Jason Kehe, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
  • But listen, if one of your coaches is close to the same age as your players, your team not gonna be any good anyway.
    Hoopshype, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
  • But the idealism of Star aside, would Emily actually be any good at her job in the real world?
    Meg Walters, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2022
  • There really doesn’t seem to be any good news about inflation for consumers on the horizon.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 24 June 2022
  • But part of new pitching coach Chris Holt’s job is to help transition the team’s promising prospects to the big leagues, and that task will almost chiefly dictate how quickly this team might be any good again.
    Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • In the midst of a rebuild, the Washington Nationals aren’t expected to be any good for the foreseeable future, but bad baseball is better than no baseball, and few things are more enjoyable than a day or night at the ballpark, no matter the score.
    Scott Allen, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Being extraordinarily fast, obviously, doesn’t guarantee a college pass-catcher will be any good at the next level.
    Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2022

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