How to Use great in a Sentence

great

1 of 3 adjective
  • The project will require a great amount of time and money.
  • There is a very great need for reform.
  • The low cost of these products gives them great appeal.
  • They're in no great hurry to finish.
  • There is a great demand for his services.
  • Is there any love greater than that between parent and child?
  • The building was restored at great expense.
  • This can keep you in great shape.
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • This is a great, very clear script!
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 25 May 2026
  • Black beans or red beans would be great.
    — Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The last two games have been great for us.
    — Michael Russo, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • To me, that didn’t feel like a great idea.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 20 Mar. 2026
  • And that doesn’t mean that the strike was great.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 4 May 2026
  • The last two years have been great with the guys.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2026
  • The odds aren’t great from that spot right there.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Well, that feels like a great place to leave it.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Berries Berries are a great source of fiber.
    — Jennifer Lefton, Verywell Health, 22 June 2026
  • There’s just one = group here and one > (greater than) group.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • All that is needed is a great team.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
  • This was one of his greatest fears.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 22 June 2026
  • But what a waste of a great comic.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
  • This is a great dish for feeding a crowd.
    — Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The truly great ones put those fires out.
    — Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The two are great scene partners.
    — Grace Byron, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The defense doesn’t have to be great.
    — The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • Her not-so-great reason to tie the knot?
    — Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 8 June 2026
  • He's won over half of 'em, for those who don't do great with math.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
  • That’s what makes the playoffs great.
    — Eric Stephens, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • Three of the books were good (one was great), but one was a slog.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Ukraine has made that a much greater challenge.
    — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026

great

2 of 3 adverb
  • We had some problems at first, but now things are going just great.
  • Keep up the good work. You're doing great!
  • She's did great better than some adults.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Both of these options worked great for me.
    — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 27 June 2026
  • These should be great longer-term entry points.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Well, Lila's off doing great now.
    — Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • The Hornets played great and made those plays down the stretch.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Offense and defense for those guys played great.
    — Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • For thousands of years, analog maps worked great.
    — Edmund Zagorin, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But for real, Zac Efron would work great on this show.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The Supreme Court could make election night great again.
    — Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Åberg is trending and played great in his first two starts at the Masters.
    — Dennis Esser, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The other is digging a tree from the wild that may bloom great or hardly at all.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
  • To put the cherry on top, a great-looking tarte tatin fails to please even a single guest.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Brown ales seem to work great if the chocolate is dark and has almonds, though caramel or toffee notes help, too.
    — Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Plus, hostas look great planted at the base of medium-to-large hydrangeas to help hide their bare lower stems.
    — Cori Sears, The Spruce, 21 Apr. 2026
  • So everything was working great.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This matching option looks great unbuttoned and billowy, with one hem tucked in, or tied at the waist for a cropped look.
    — Shea Simmons, PEOPLE, 19 June 2026
  • Any greens work great here, but my family loves the crunchiness of iceberg and romaine here.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Any greens work great here, but my family loves the crunchiness of iceberg and romaine here.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 June 2026
  • The bags tend to be upscale, durable, made of the highest quality, lightweight and great-looking.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Jack Nicholson appeared in a rare photo as the cinema great turned 89.
    — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • What emerged was an outstanding union of musical influences that act as two great tastes that taste great together!
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The sweater is thin and worked great when layered over a T-shirt during 60-degree Fahrenheit days.
    — Kevin Gray, Travel + Leisure, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Arguably, one of my most common issues with denim is finding a great-fitting pair that doesn’t gap at the waist but still fits my hips and thighs like a glove.
    — Ali Faccenda, InStyle, 19 Feb. 2026
  • As a result, Sage & Salt treats its bottles as a way to shift your mood and intention, not merely to smell great all day long.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 20 Feb. 2026
  • But manage again when the Yankees great known as Donnie Baseball was about to turn 65?
    — Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Despite the chaos at Newark, the internal systems for United ran great, said Harteveldt.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The audience also erupted each time Leonard scored; the Aztecs great finished with a team-high 18 points.
    — Kyle Kensing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • All these decades later, a great many people still think gasoline supplies and prices are being cynically gamed by the oil companies.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026

great

3 of 3 noun
  • All the greats win gold medals.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2026
  • That’s what the greats have done.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Both of those guys are the greats, for sure.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • And then go to Philly and see the greats.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • One is the son of one of the school’s all-time greats.
    — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 9 May 2026
  • Nobody knows how the greats do it.
    — Seth Wickersham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Gena is an amazing soul, one of our greats.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Even the greats don’t always know.
    — Seth Wickersham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Where does that place him among franchise greats?
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, because that’s what the greats do.
    — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This league is built on the battles of all-time greats.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 9 May 2026
  • There is a set of lawyers who do great, but a very large group who don’t.
    — Nicole Laporte, Town & Country, 2 May 2023
  • Kobe Bryant — One of the all-time greats.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • Lemonade cakes are a dime a dozen, but this is one of the greats.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Lemonade cakes are a dime a dozen, but this is one of the greats.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 18 May 2026
  • As if he'd been conceived in a lab based on parts of past greats.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2018
  • But some of us have always been right about her place among the greats.
    — Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026
  • And watching the greats stand on the podium.
    — Ren Clayton, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The ones held up as the greats were almost always white and male.
    — Meherwan Irani, Bon Appétit, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Carter can’t wait to rib his fellow gridiron greats.
    — Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The bluegrass world is mourning the loss of one of its greats.
    — Diana Leyva, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Many of those classic slug guns still have a place among the ranks of the all-time greats.
    — Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 22 June 2023
  • Certainly, on-screen, one of the all-time greats.
    — Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Two sports greats would be facing off against each other for the last time.
    — Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The icons, the true greats, adjust and evolve when tested.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
  • All the greats have done it, and that is the most feel-good universal film.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Shoulder to shoulder with the greats.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Shoulder to shoulder with the greats.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Shoulder to shoulder with the greats.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Jan. 2026
  • This is the beginning of the end for one of the all-time greats of the sport.
    — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 26 June 2026

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