How to Use good life in a Sentence

good life

noun
  • All because their parents wanted a better life for them.
    Judy Cantor-Navas, Billboard, 20 June 2018
  • Many victims came from abroad, moving to London in search of a better life.
    Sarah Tilotta, CNN, 13 June 2018
  • Turning people into criminals who are just asking for a better life.
    Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 2 July 2018
  • Jennifer Aniston Who appears to have the best life on Instagram?
    Jane Larkworthy, The Cut, 26 June 2018
  • Obviously, there are people that shouldn't be allowed here, but not families that are here working and looking for a better life.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 20 June 2018
  • Families are migrating to the U.S. to flee poverty, to flee gang violence and to seek a better life.
    Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 22 June 2018
  • Pantuso said people look at Bourdain or Robin Williams and see happy people living their best lives.
    Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2018
  • The bounty of oil made the model appear workable; Saudis could have both the good life and piety (those who disliked religiosity could always go abroad).
    The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • My parents, like many here today supporting their children, were immigrants that came to this county looking to achieve a better life, not so much for themselves but for our wellbeing.
    Kristi Nix, Houston Chronicle, 18 June 2018
  • His lawyer, however, didn’t note the heartlessness needed to steal the identity of someone desperately seeking a better life while actively working to deport them.
    Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 28 June 2018
  • Here's how to live your best life on and off your phone in 2020.
    Alex Baker-Whitcomb, Wired, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Rue has to find her purpose to want to live and to want to live a good life.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Forbes has tracked the price of the really good life for 40 years.
    Andrea Murphy, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Bill Belichick has been living the good life in the NFL for the last two decades.
    Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2020
  • There is no good life for the few babies that are born with it.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 11 July 2022
  • And that was their idea of good parenting and a good life.
    Jenny Zhang, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Sep. 2020
  • This is not the way to ensure that our children have a good life.
    Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
  • Tony wanted enough for a good life; Conor, enough to feel safe.
    Rebecca Curtis, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • And it’s used by philosophers a lot to define a good life.
    Shayla Love, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2023
  • So, with the Bear’s blessing, they got married and made a good life.
    Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The single mother of three sons was living the good life.
    Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The shop on Main Street was supposed to be Chykeat Goodley’s ticket to the good life.
    Janet Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Amaya Bloom has built a good life, far away from her home in Sri Lanka.
    Sun Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Both of those things should add up to a good life, and neither should detract.
    Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The Good News: Keep it simple — have faith in God and live an honest, good life.
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 11 July 2022
  • In different ways, these three restaurants make the case for the good life.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 10 July 2020
  • The fashion crowd was also living the good life this week.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Mamede, who lives in Potomac, moved here from Brazil in search of a better life.
    Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 6 July 2018
  • And those vital elements of a good life just got a refresh in the city.
    Debra Skodack, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2024
  • The war has also united the elites, who now feel unwanted in the West and see Putin as their only hope for a good life.
    Mikhail Zygar, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2024

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