Goes is an English word of 4 letters. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Goes meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of go
Using Goes
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of go
- In the example corpus, goes often appears in combinations such as: goes to, it goes, goes up.
Context around Goes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 9 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Goes
- In this selection, "goes" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, inductor, copy, band, down, woke and broke stand out and add context to how "goes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a band goes on and, as goes january so, goes down, goes deeper and goes beyond. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "goes" sits close to words such as sense, moment and whose, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with goes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As goes January, so goes the year. (7 words)
And where the teacher goes, the whole yeshivah goes. (9 words)
For normal goods, when demand goes up, supply goes up too. (11 words)
Back into the ring Knight goes up top but misses a flying nothing then Jimmy lands a Samoan drop for 2. Now Jimmy goes up top but Knight climbs up there with him and looks for a superplex, Jimmy shoves him down and hits a Splash for a near fall. (50 words)
When you go to a festival, a band goes on, and then they finish and then the atmosphere changes, everyone goes to the toilet - that's a job in itself - goes to the bar, goes and eat something. (38 words)
Landing this huge rocket, is another milestone I don’t want to miss because if it goes right it’s something to remember and if it goes wrong (after everything that can happen) it’s a huge blast. (38 words)
Lethal goes up top, Cassidy rolls away so he goes to the next corner, same story different corner, Jay runs around him and gets ahead of him, dive, boot up, catch it, Orange throws him into the turnbuckles! (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
When you go to a festival, a band goes on, and then they finish and then the atmosphere changes, everyone goes to the toilet - that's a job in itself - goes to the bar, goes and eat something.
So goes the men in the church, so goes the church, so goes the men in the church, so goes the culture in the world.
For sinusoids, as the voltage across the inductor goes to its maximum value, the current goes to zero, and as the voltage across the inductor goes to zero, the current through it goes to its maximum value.
The metaphor of the play for me is that whenever we take a journey, our baggage goes with us — who we are goes with us, our past goes with us.
All cellular organisms must replicate their genetic material, DNA, to proliferate, so that one copy goes to a daughter cell and the other copy goes to the other daughter cell.
And from a weakness standpoint, really billet which goes into construction and then slab which goes into packaging.
Back into the ring Knight goes up top but misses a flying nothing then Jimmy lands a Samoan drop for 2. Now Jimmy goes up top but Knight climbs up there with him and looks for a superplex, Jimmy shoves him down and hits a Splash for a near fall.
Because the more Coke goes woke, the more I hope it goes broke.
It always goes on; even in the worst circumstances, life goes on.
It took me years to remember which side of the plate the knife goes on, and finally only remembered after being told it goes on the side of one’s stabbing hand.
Landing this huge rocket, is another milestone I don’t want to miss because if it goes right it’s something to remember and if it goes wrong (after everything that can happen) it’s a huge blast.
Lethal goes up top, Cassidy rolls away so he goes to the next corner, same story different corner, Jay runs around him and gets ahead of him, dive, boot up, catch it, Orange throws him into the turnbuckles!
This quote goes to show as time goes on, new generations want more and more, especially with social media making everything feel like a competition.
Trey goes to the top rope and goes for a double stomp but Grado gets out of the way and hits a Death Valley Driver for two.
After an evacuation plane goes down, the player takes control of one of the flight's survivors and goes on a quest to find another way to escape.
And where the teacher goes, the whole yeshivah goes.
As goes January, so goes the year.
As the market drops, we add the inverse SDS to our Model Portfolio because it goes up when the SPY goes down.
Etiquette expert Thomas Farley, who goes by the tagline “Mister Manners,” told that simple counter-service orders do not typically warrant tips – unless the barista truly goes above and beyond.
For normal goods, when demand goes up, supply goes up too.
Phrases with goes
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with goes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- goes to 63×
- it goes 31×
- goes up 27×
- goes on 26×
- that goes 15×
- goes the 14×
- goes into 14×
- goes down 13×
- he goes 12×
- so goes 9×