Sentence examples for good sum of from inspiring English sources

The owner stubbornly refused to sell it though he was offered a good sum of money for it.

He and his siblings inherited a good sum of money and moved to the West Coast, eventually ending up in Beverly Hills.

"I would gladly spend a good sum of money for one of his pieces," says Hall. "The originals are unapproachable in price to the man in the street.

Discovering that Grant was not actually a Galena native saved me a good sum of money, because the appeal of buying the $175 first edition faded, and the $14.95 paperback version on sale at the historical museum seemed quite sufficient.

When her friend returned from the war he found a shop that increased in value, a good sum of money in the bank, and a woman who had proved she would make him a good wife.

When a white emissary from Clybourne Park (David Cromer, who is appropriately jumpy as he brutalizes the family with a smile that's anything but) offers Walter a good sum of money not to move his family there, he decides to take it.

Yes, suh! and donating good sums of money to the Afro-American Episcopal Missionary Societo and to a finishing school for young black upper-class ladies in Baltimore.

The best part of the book is the concluding chapter, a good summing up of Nehru's triumphs and failures.

Replace "walk" with "skateboard" and you'd have a pretty good summing up of the current situation.

And then there's Picasso – which is a good summing up of 20th-century art in one sentence, if you think about it.

Dismay might be a good summing up of their general feelings," Priddy says.