good English

Example Sentences

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Mike described being invited a year ago to take up what he was promised would be a good job, in Thailand, requiring only good English language and typing skills.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025

And I mistook a perfectly good English word, “rosé,” for the Polish prepositional phrase “o rosie,” which means “about the dew.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

She speaks good English; everyone in her family is, for the most part, healthy.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2022

He peppers his good English and default Venetian dialect with Yiddish expressions.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022

It sounded to him like an insult couched in good English, which, of course, made it a double-insult—the insult itself, and the fact that Chacko thought he wouldn’t understand it.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy