How to Use goodness in a Sentence
goodness
noun
- Even if you don't agree, at least have the goodness to be polite!
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Thank goodness for the cheat sheet, er, mash note, from the chef.
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Tom Sietsema,
Washington Post,
1 Sep. 2023
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My goodness, the flavor of the steak popped with each bite.
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Toriano Porter,
Kansas City Star,
19 Jan. 2024
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Best and worst of the week: Catch of the year: My goodness, Jaivian Lofton.
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Scooby Axson,
USA TODAY,
3 Oct. 2022
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Thank goodness, then, for good friends and good casseroles.
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Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
16 Aug. 2023
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Put the cameras away and do something out of the goodness of your heart.
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Carlos De Loera,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Aug. 2023
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May all the evils in your life be banished by goodness.
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Jamie Ballard,
Woman's Day,
29 Aug. 2023
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The film made a kind of noble last stand for the whole idea of squeaky-clean girlish goodness.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
18 Nov. 2022
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Thank goodness for that over the last few years with the pandemic as well.
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Cnt Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 Oct. 2023
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Give us the faith to trust the goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness.
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Elizabeth Berry,
Woman's Day,
19 Oct. 2022
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This interview had me on the brink of tears, my goodness.
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Stat Staff,
STAT,
28 Oct. 2023
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Stop in at Duck as early as 6 a.m. each day and breathe in the scent of freshly baked goodness.
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Katie Toussaint,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Jan. 2024
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That’s a huge number, but not all of them will progress to heart failure, thank goodness.
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Elizabeth Cooney,
STAT,
7 Aug. 2022
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Though the world is that way, there is a flower of goodness in every human, and in our Earth.
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Devi Shastri,
Journal Sentinel,
12 Nov. 2022
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Jensen drives up, and honest to goodness, a rainbow comes out.
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Christian Holub,
EW.com,
11 Oct. 2022
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Who else is ready for a taste-test of this cinnamon goodness?
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Abigail Wilt,
Southern Living,
14 Feb. 2024
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Silky-smooth, stretchy goodness awaits you at a fraction of the original price.
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Annie Blackman,
Allure,
8 Feb. 2024
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There’s a whole lot of goodness to go along with the insanity.
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Shirley Halperin,
Variety,
28 July 2022
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All of that goodness is nestled into a big crusty roll.
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Yadi Rodriguez,
cleveland,
25 Oct. 2022
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The answer is Etsy, home to all sorts of goodness like this adorable dinosaur sweater.
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Kelsey Stiegman,
Seventeen,
11 Nov. 2022
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And, my goodness, take a look at their manifesto, even the one that’s so-called watered down in 2017.
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Benjamin Weinthal,
Fox News,
16 Feb. 2024
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In the process to survive, [the characters] continue the search for goodness and their search for god.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 Dec. 2022
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There are all these parcels of goodness that people eat and consider dumplings around the world.
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Kristine M. Kierzek,
Journal Sentinel,
31 Aug. 2022
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Among all these, the fresh tortillas at Old Town stand out for their simple, street food goodness.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Dec. 2022
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Bask in the brilliant light that your life is becoming and know that even more goodness is on its way.
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Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 2023
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But on last night's episode, the Emmy-winning host married a cabbage out of the goodness of his heart.
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Lester Fabian Brathwaite,
EW.com,
29 Aug. 2022
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Well, this Keurig is serving up all kinds of goodness to start your mornings.
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Kylee McGuigan,
Popular Mechanics,
22 Nov. 2022
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There is so much goodness under what feels like a fluffy rom-com fairytale.
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Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
19 Aug. 2022
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Marketers are going to walk away, more and more from these outliers as the downsides are faster and worse than the long tail of goodness.
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Michael Gale,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2022
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At some point, writers stopped doing that, and thank goodness.
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David Owen,
The New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2023
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