How to Use great in a Sentence

great

1 of 3 adjective

• The project will require a great amount of time and money.
• There is a very great need for reform.
• The low cost of these products gives them great appeal.
• They're in no great hurry to finish.
• There is a great demand for his services.
• Is there any love greater than that between parent and child?
• The building was restored at great expense.
• The process is fun, the price point is great, and the sleep is amazing.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 8 Nov. 2022
• Tricks of the trade Crooks will go to great lengths to take what isn’t theirs.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 26 Sep. 2020
• Three of the books were good (one was great), but one was a slog.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• Off the court has been great, and on the court has been amazing.
  — Jonathan X. Simmons, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2021
• The design is great, the camera is fine, and the price is right.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 21 July 2022
• Great for use in schools, in the home classroom, and at home.
  — South Florida Parenting, 3 July 2017
• This is a great way to involve kids in the meal prep, too.
  — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Nov. 2020
• The reforms will do a great deal of good for those most in need.
  — Dean Zerbe, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• The defense doesn't have to be great when the offense is this good.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2021
• Liv set the tone in the first inning and pitched a great game overall.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 12 May 2021
• There was great in Nate Carter, and much more to love than lament.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 27 Aug. 2022
• This is great for the program, but a mixed bag for some of the players.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• These guys can still make great plays and take hits away.
  — The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2022
• After a quarrel, the movies are a great way to cool down.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021
• Din Tai Fung does great soups and veggies too, by the way.
  — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• But not all the watches that flew off shelves were great.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
• So for the most part look, coach (Dennis) Gates is great.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 21 Jan. 2023
• The old rifle still shoots very well and its peep sight is great in the big woods.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 23 Feb. 2021
• Just walking amidst the gardens and to be around life is great.
  — Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com, 25 Dec. 2020
• Some of our friends put pictures in there too, which is great.
  — Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
• This is great for kids who aren’t ready to touch nature yet.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2020
• So there’s still a premium for the BEV, but not so great.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• The Internal Revenue Service website spells out these cases out in great, specific detail.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2024

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great

2 of 3 adverb

• We had some problems at first, but now things are going just great.
• Keep up the good work. You're doing great!
• The kinds of gods so great even the blind can see them.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2018
• That was three or four weeks and that worked great for me.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• These will look great paired with a short skirt or dress.
  — Wendy Vazquez, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2023
• But Phelps notes that the club is doing great these days.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• And that was enough to send a great many men into a state of unchecked rage.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Dec. 2019
• Then time got away, the show was doing great, the Emmys, and all of that.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2022
• The skort would look great worn with the matching Asana tank.
  — Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 28 June 2023
• Oh, and the cocktail and wine lists are pretty great too.
  — Andrea Bennett, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
• But here’s the thing: Even freshly cooked rice worked great.
  — J. Kenji López-Alt, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2022
• It’s not the be all, end all, and your bread will taste great even without it.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2020
• Hoping this great-sounding food and drink has the vibe to match.
  — Megha McSwain, Chron, 27 July 2022
• Now that the heat is on, a beach getaway might sound great right about now.
  — Malak Silmi, San Antonio Express-News, 29 June 2021
• Daisy is house-trained, walks great on a leash, and loves a good nap in her dog bed.
  — The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 14 Jan. 2023
• Even from a lofty starting point of 31.1, stocks did great—for a while.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2020
• Bish was hurt, and Anton went in and won a lot of games for us, played great.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2020
• There’s a lot of guys that are in their last year and want to finish out and want to play great.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 25 Oct. 2021
• Of course, any dress goes great with a night of dancing and a slice of pizza.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 20 May 2018
• The wheat whiskey goes great with everything, that’s the lightest of them.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2022
• What makes them so great at living on and around the water?
  — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Oct. 2019
• The chamois is thick, comfortable, and did great on longer rides.
  — Nikki Rohan, Outside Online, 14 Oct. 2022
• Becoming great at the trumpet turns out to not be the best way to get a boyfriend.
  — Greta Gerwig, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2019
• Solar can work great, Smil says, but is best where the sun shines a great deal.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 21 Mar. 2018
• This was an easy approach to the thank-you issue that worked great for us.
  — Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2023
• Things are going great, and all of a sudden, things change.
  — Kevin Henry, The Denver Post, 10 Aug. 2019
• Regardless, between Yeoh and Williams, great ready for 2023 to be the year of Michelle.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 16 Sep. 2022
• Pawl Ruff walks well on a leash, is potty-trained and does great at bath time.
  — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2023
• Miami Heat great Tim Hardaway has a thing or two to say about who is the true king of the crossover.
  — Dj Siddiqi, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• The shots turned out great, all things considered, capturing the Beatles in all their live glory.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2024

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great

3 of 3 noun

• April 3 saw the death of one of the last Thatcherite greats, Nigel Lawson.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Apr. 2023
• One of the greats of the modern game and one of the most successful.
  — SI.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• Pay homage to the Winter Olympic greats with a visit to Olympic Park, the site of the 2002 games.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 Nov. 2023
• Trafton became one of the greats of the NFL’s early days.
  — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• This unique fruit pie deserves a spot among the greats.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2023
• Many of those classic slug guns still have a place among the ranks of the all-time greats.
  — Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 22 June 2023
• The ones held up as the greats were almost always white and male.
  — Meherwan Irani, Bon Appétit, 26 Mar. 2020
• This is a guy who’s done a lot of great s— in his career.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• There is a set of lawyers who do great, but a very large group who don’t.
  — Nicole Laporte, Town & Country, 2 May 2023
• That's not to say that a few classic slug guns don't have a place among the ranks of the all-time greats.
  — Curtis Niedermier, Outdoor Life, 18 Nov. 2019
• This week, the running world lost one of its greats at just 32: Gabriele Grunewald.
  — Alex Baker-Whitcomb, WIRED, 14 June 2019
• As if he'd been conceived in a lab based on parts of past greats.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2018
• And as the late great Godard might have signed off: End of Oscars.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2023
• The literary world is mourning the loss of one of its greats this week.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2019
• Madhur Jaffrey is truly one of the greats in the food world.
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• Two sports greats collided behind the scenes of the 2023 US Open.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2023
• Cronin’s point: Even the greats had to push through early stumbles.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• The teal is back this weekend, and so are some past Marlins greats.
  — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 June 2018
• Didn't mean to cause a riot welcoming one of the greats.
  — The Enquirer, 22 Aug. 2023
• The good as well as the great can earn rings alike, and these Giants are more than merely good.
  — Christina Kahrl, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2021
• In town, the Olympic great's pink-marble mausoleum lures few tourists.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 9 Jan. 2023
• This debate started like all of the greats with a Twitter poll.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 22 Mar. 2018
• One of the game's greats has already shown an eagerness to help.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 15 May 2018
• Two sports greats would be facing off against each other for the last time.
  — Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 23 Jan. 2024
• One of Auburn’s all-time greats will be back on the Plains for the Tigers’ pro day, looking to prove himself once again.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 20 Mar. 2023
• The son of one of the all-time greats is being mostly overlooked in a great class of running backs.
  — al, 27 Aug. 2019
• Before the game, the crowd cheered as a lineup of all-time Buff greats were introduced in the end zone.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2023
• That, in many minds, is enough to put the 22-year-old Iowa star among the greats of college basketball.
  — Pete Iacobelli, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2024
• Emulate the strategies of the greats to become one yourself.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• It was created to celebrate the centenary of Capote’s birth and has been signed by the literary great himself.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024