How to Use goodly in a Sentence

goodly

adjective
Definition of goodlynext
Synonyms for goodlynext
  • Once upon a time, people went to Tryall and remained there for a goodly spell.
    — Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2012
  • The ducks will join a goodly number of their relatives that have already made the jump down the Central Flyway to Texas.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2017
  • A goodly share of its production cost was pumped into its state-of-the-art special effects.
    — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2017
  • As night follows day, Democrats went apoplectic over Comey’s ouster, aiming a goodly amount of their wrath at Rosenstein.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 22 July 2017
  • There was goodly number of drive-ins scattered around Cleveland and environs for a few decades in the middle of the last century.
    — Rich Heileman, cleveland, 8 May 2020
  • Lastly, and saddest of all, the Corvette will lose its hood of goodly length, the conspicuous priapism that has defined the mission for 65 years.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Over the years, the Navy has collected a goodly amount of data to inform battle-damage models.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • A goodly number of shoppers bring their smiling dogs, eager to be petted.
    — Kerry Schmidt, kansascity.com, 30 June 2017
  • The ball players spent a goodly part of their time picking up these relics and tossing them resoundingly against the white sideboards of the enclosed arena.
    — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • They're reportedly paid $1200 per day—a goodly amount but less than what many of them could make as industry consultants.
    — Ann Finkbeiner, Science | AAAS, 27 June 2019
  • And that is a condition that envelops a goodly number of people everywhere.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The three senators receiving an offer of help from Trump are a goodly portion of the incumbents under fire from Bannon.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Shouldn’t the board take into consideration what a goodly number of owners want?
    — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
  • That’s because customers pay only a portion of the fares shown on their Uber smartphone apps; much, if not most, of the cost is covered by the company’s venture investors — that’s where a goodly portion of their investments has been burned up.
    — Michael Hiltzik, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
  • In other words, most Americans are disturbed by the epic, endless scale of military spending, and would like a goodly portion of that to be redirected back into the country itself.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Fortunately for terrestrial connoisseurs, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has laid in a goodly supply of the stuff, which can be ordered from their website.
    — Eliza Gauger, WIRED, 17 May 2007
  • The drafting committee spent a goodly amount of time discussing this issue and considered many alternatives.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021

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