Sentence examples for good sum of money 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.

(Indonesia), which was generous enough to donate a good sum of start-up money to boost up my confidence in this 'long march' for the Global South.

"I could have lost $10,000 right around the corner — at least in the short term," said Fitzgerald, adding that the sum was a good amount of money in the current economic climate.

A good amount of money is paid when one retires.

When the Athenians were on their way down to the haven of Piraeus, the shield with the head of Medusa was missing; and be, under the pretext of searching for it, ransacked all places, and found among their goods considerable sums of money concealed, which he applied to the public use; and with this the soldiers and seamen were well provided for their voyage.