How to Use all right in a Sentence

all right

adjective
  • Is it all right to leave early?
  • He was very sick but now he's all right again.
  • Is this movie all right for children?
  • She was upset when her boyfriend left, but she's all right now.
  • The quality of his work is all right but not outstanding.
  • Her first movie was pretty bad but her second one was all right.
  • That kind of tells it all right there.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • But your girl is gonna be all right.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The movie sets it all right in the end.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 May 2026
  • Well, all right, Martha, thank you.
    — ABC News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • David Brooks thinks the kids are all right.
    — Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Could Trump’s war still turn out all right?
    — Nicholas D. Kristof, Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Sort of like—all right, let’s like slow this thing down.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • The little school was there all right.
    — Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2026
  • We were tumbled around, all right.
    — Denise Snodell, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The Stranger Things kids are all right.
    — Yohana Desta, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Holding the fort down for on to me, all right?
    — Anna Pook, New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Scherzer stepped on it, all right.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That’s why these things exist, all right?
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 9 May 2026
  • Oh, the girls came undone, all right.
    — Pamela Avila, USA Today, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Like, yeah, (his season) has been all right.
    — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • If it doesn't get done in 60 days, that's all right.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • The first thing to know is that the baby is all right now.
    — Sarah Todd, STAT, 18 June 2026
  • And all right, well then that’s who Kimiko has to be, right?
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2026
  • UConn was in a pickle, all right.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Harry Styles is back, all right.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2026
  • Somebody lied us into that war, all right.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The other thing is modern popes are against war, all right?
    — ABC News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The Castle Rock kid is all right.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Oh, that narrative has changed, all right.
    — John Whisler, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Feb. 2026

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