Goodness is an English word with synonyms like good or quality. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Goodness in a sentence
Goodness meaning
- The state or characteristic of being good.
- The good, nutritional, healthy part or content of something.
- God.
Using Goodness
- The main meaning on this page is: The state or characteristic of being good. | The good, nutritional, healthy part or content of something. | God.
- Useful related words include: good, quality, badness, bad.
- In the example corpus, goodness often appears in combinations such as: thank goodness, the goodness, goodness of.
Context around Goodness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Goodness
- In this selection, "goodness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, thank, hydrating, irreproachable, elway, fangio and evil stand out and add context to how "goodness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the goodness of its and all the goodness that hashem. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "goodness" sits close to words such as bore, builders and complainant, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with goodness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And thank goodness, I'm tired of my arms being restricted. (11 words)
Thank goodness Elway listened, and thank goodness Fangio had the cojones to use him. (14 words)
But men won’t desire goodness or righteousness unless God has changed their hearts. (14 words)
And so little by little they learned to become aware of all the goodness that Hashem gives them, the goodness in their lives that reinforces for them how much their true Father, their Father in Heaven, loves them. (38 words)
As a result, these schools tend to view evil in terms of matter that is markedly inferior to goodness—evil as lacking spiritual insight and goodness, rather than to emphasize portrayals of evil as an equal force. (37 words)
But, what I think of first when I think of Devin is the type of man he is, his character, his values and how high he raised the bar for spreading goodness and justice in the community. (37 words)
But as soon as she got off stage, she beamed: "Oh my goodness, I feel alive! (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
He did so to draw their attention towards the time of goodness, so they may expose themselves to the gusts of goodness.
And so little by little they learned to become aware of all the goodness that Hashem gives them, the goodness in their lives that reinforces for them how much their true Father, their Father in Heaven, loves them.
Thank goodness Elway listened, and thank goodness Fangio had the cojones to use him.
As a result, these schools tend to view evil in terms of matter that is markedly inferior to goodness—evil as lacking spiritual insight and goodness, rather than to emphasize portrayals of evil as an equal force.
Scotus argued to the contrary that when one says that "God is good", the goodness in question is exactly the same sort of goodness that is meant when one says "Jane is good".
Worst of all, they despise and hate the material universe and deny its goodness and the goodness of its maker.
Worst of all, they despised and hated the material universe and denied its goodness and the goodness of its maker.
A juicy treat: Available in sheer shades like nude and watermelon, this Kopari lip gloss offers nothing but hydrating goodness with every application.
All leaders have their vision, they have their directions for their people but only good leaders have a pro-people agenda for the goodness of the people.
And goodness knows we need to discover things which will cheer us up from the otherwise depressing news we are bombarded with each and every day in Broken Britain.
And it doesn’t hurt that there is money to be made in peddling contrarian views, particularly when they validate the egos of fragile people preoccupied with their own irreproachable goodness.
And thank goodness, I'm tired of my arms being restricted.
But as soon as she got off stage, she beamed: "Oh my goodness, I feel alive!
But men won’t desire goodness or righteousness unless God has changed their hearts.
But then again, Rain’s glowy goodness is also what alerts her girlfriend’s mother to the similarities between them.
But, what I think of first when I think of Devin is the type of man he is, his character, his values and how high he raised the bar for spreading goodness and justice in the community.
But when I give you my two cents on the belief system and goodness of “Small Town America” it’s because I lived it.
Chickpeas, lentils, and beans are an easy source of adding goodness, bulk and texture to stews, soups, bakes and salads.
Count how many pages of gore you must wade through before finding a story that celebrates our triumphs or goodness.
Even once December ends, players can rest assured in knowing that the future is bright and packed to the brim with video game goodness.
Common combinations with goodness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- thank goodness 36×
- the goodness 23×
- goodness of 18×
- goodness and 15×
- goodness for 14×
- my goodness 13×
- and goodness 12×
- of goodness 10×
- goodness that 8×
- goodness in 8×