How to Use good people in a Sentence

good people

noun
  • A lot of good people in the world don’t seem to have that capacity.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2024
  • That’s probably because good people gravitate toward good people, and this network is full of them — from the guests to the staff — by design.
    Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
  • There were good people that work hard and would give you the shirt off their back.
    Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • A lot of good people are still locked up for cannabis trading.
    Andrew Deangelo, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • But maybe this might get some good people to come up with something.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 22 July 2023
  • No matter that bad things happen to good people all the time.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Achilles and his wife chose the neighborhood eight years ago for its good schools and good people.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024
  • Why do the beautiful souls and good people go so young!?
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The secret to the service is good people bringing like minds with them, says Stein.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
  • May the huge majority of fans, who are good people, stand up to shut up all the racists once and for all!
    Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The energy on set has changed with such good people around.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
  • There are good people here that are trying to continue to make this a good place to live.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023
  • A lot of emotions, feeling good coming back to the city, seeing a lot of good people.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 10 Apr. 2024
  • His journey is what the Be A Craig Fund is made for–helping good people who find themselves in a time of need.
    Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2024
  • These kids got to see true pros who are good people, and kind and rooting for each other — and rooting for them.
    Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 19 July 2024
  • As the viewer sees throughout the 12-episode series, good people can do bad things and vice versa.
    Dana Feldman, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Many bad things happened during those years to many good people.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024
  • My Dad and Theresa are kind, good people that made this decision for them, no one else.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Cults tend to attract good people, smart people, people who want to make the world better.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Sometimes bad things happen to good people and they’re gone way too early.
    Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The owners are good people and just opened a pretty excellent wine bar next door, Musette.
    Annie Armstrong, New York Times, 3 June 2024
  • But no more silly than the idea that paying back student loans takes money out of the hands of good people to their detriment.
    Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Bad things happen to good people; good things happen to bad people.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2023
  • There are a lot of people trying to help, a lot of good people… Every day is a challenge, and every day is a new day.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
  • During the two years [of the pandemic], people were making all sorts of changes, and being these good people.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • In the last several years, conservatism has lost many good people to Trumpism and worse.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Nov. 2023
  • In this telling, public tragedies convey a moral struggle in which good people are brought low by a bad society.
    Thomas D. Beamish, The Conversation, 14 June 2024
  • Royer said Cave Creek is fortunate to have good people and experts on top of this issue.
    Kerria Weaver, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2024
  • Biden stayed composed and focused and has good people behind him, Holbrook said.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
  • When money is easy lenders run out of good people to lend to and conversely, when money is tight lenders run out of money to lend to good borrowers.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024

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