How to Use good guy in a Sentence
good guy
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Others didn’t go through that step and put the wrong one out, but, but Rob’s a good guy and.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
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There was no good guy with a gun to protect us kids at school.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
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The hardest thing to explain was that my ex was always a good guy and a great dad.
—Hoda Mallone, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
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And there was a real good guy by the name of Daniel Powell who was the showrunner on, with Jessi Klein.
—Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
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Her dad played at Delaware and was a big football fan and good guy.
—Dave Skretta, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
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Is Kittridge a good guy or a bad guy in Dead Reckoning?
—Time, 12 July 2023
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Sandy lost her soulmate and the world lost a talented, handsome, all around good guy!
—Marianne Garvey, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
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Patrice Bergeron is a paragon of hockey virtue, a first-class player, leader, and all-time good guy.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
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The character is complex, but nobody would call him a good guy.
—Mark Harris, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
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For some fans, the apology was enough: In their eyes, here was an otherwise good guy who’d made a mistake.
—Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
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Here’s hoping good guy Christian Arroyo, now playing in Worcester, gets back to the big leagues.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
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One good guy with a gun could have stopped the evil criminals who opened fire on the crowd immediately.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
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One neighbor described Craig Robertson as a good guy who could sometimes rub people the wrong way.
—Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
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Charlie, Sylvia’s husband as played by Luke Macfarlane, is a good guy.
—Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
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Raising Arizona is a fairy tale that points out that no good guy is ever all good, and the bad guys are just flawed characters who were raised wrong.
—Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2024
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Republican lawmakers often argue that the thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
—Talia Richman, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
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Yet Cook, the Duke economist, says this good guy/bad guy dichotomy is a false and dangerous one.
—Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2017
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Playing the puppy-eyed good guy repeatedly is boring after a point.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Sep. 2023
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So there’s no good guy in this struggle and therefore, there's unlikely to be any kind of outcome that the West is going to find favorable, or as that is likely to put Russia back on a more democratic course.
—Gabriel Hays, Fox News, 24 June 2023
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In our business, Mort was one of the wonderful combinations of writer, reporter, broadcaster, expert and good guy.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
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There are archetypal good guy and bad boy figures who have been part of her life, whom everyone will transpose onto this material.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024
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Cage's silent role is more stoic action hero than wacky goofball, as his taciturn good guy is suckered into cleaning a shut-down family restaurant and mops the floor with a bunch of demonic Chuck E. Cheese wannabes.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
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But Monkey Man is also, more than anything, proof of Patel’s commitment to moving beyond being the gentle, irreproachable good guy.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
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None of this backstory is really necessary for newcomers to understand that Uhtred is a good guy, happy to respect religious and cultural differences in the name of peace.
—Catherine Bray, Variety, 14 Apr. 2023
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Other academic top brass also take a bow, notably the philosopher Frederik Christian Sibbern — who comes across as exactly the frazzled, approachable good guy he is reputed to have been — in a virtuosic graphite drawing by Kobke.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
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American documentary filmmaking is about going into a private story and having a good guy and a bad guy — basically staying in the three-act approach of Hollywood cinema, usually with some sort of climax.
—Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
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He’s turned that personal embarrassment into another hilariously cringe-inducing scene for his series about a painfully honest, endearing rapper trying to make it in a game that values grittiness, bravado and ruthless climbing over being a good guy.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2023
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