How to Use all right in a Sentence

all right

adjective
Definition of all rightnext
Synonyms for all rightnext
  • Is it all right to leave early?
  • He was very sick but now he's all right again.
  • Is this movie all right for children?
  • She was upset when her boyfriend left, but she's all right now.
  • The quality of his work is all right but not outstanding.
  • Her first movie was pretty bad but her second one was all right.
  • Stay in your zone, the map seems to say, and everything will be all right.
    — Bob Lorentson, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The kids are all right Nolan Schanuel's rise to the majors has been meteoric.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Circling the drain, all right…my dream was heading for the sewer.
    — Nick Baumgartner and Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2024
  • It’s been clear for a while that the American workforce is not all right.
    — Trey Williams, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The kids are playing, all right, and the Cincinnati Reds are winning as a result.
    — Stephen Whyno, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2023
  • Everything has turned out all right for Scott off screen, though.
    — Alex Cramer, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
  • But coming to school with diarrhea is all right as long as a child can make it to the toilet in time.
    — Bianca Vázquez Toness, Fortune Well, 7 Feb. 2024
  • One of the major economic tenets of his plan isn’t working at all right now.
    — Matt Viser and Meryl Kornfield, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • And my second question is, all right, so how is this new version of the cloud going to be monetized?
    — WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
  • There was confusion, all right, but mostly among the Chargers .
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Branches bend, and the dirt below us shimmers, and clouds swirl and pool, sucking everything up, spitting it all right back out.
    — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Believe in God, things are going to be all right eventually.
    — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Soaking crunchy cookie in gingery syrup requires patience, but that’s all right.
    — Eric Kim, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • This Lunar New Year holiday season, China’s leaders are worried the kids aren’t all right.
    — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Parenting can feel lonely and stressful, and the pressure to get it all right is real, especially in the age of social media.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Take the pressure off being perfect or doing it all right, and just keep the communication going.
    — Meghan Leahy, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2023
  • According to Russell’s mother, Talitha, Russell was then heard on the phone asking if someone was all right before letting out a scream.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
  • For thousands of years, Pando has gotten along all right despite predation, drought and those who doubted its existence.
    — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The rules of this club are as follows: 1) no one (caregiver) knows what to do or has all of the answers, 2) the teens are actually all right, 3) the technology cannot be tamed and still cannot be ignored, and 4) connection (in all the ways) is king.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • During the Biden era, polls have tended to signal doom for Democratic candidates, but elections have generally turned out all right for them.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Some workplaces provide pension contributions, giving it that warm fuzzy feeling that everything will be all right, and expecting to get more out than is put in.
    — Peter Knapp, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Climate change is an existential crisis affecting us all right now.
    — Debra J. Rosenthal, The Conversation, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Ramon testified that Paltrow left after about four minutes without identifying herself or waiting to see whether Sanderson was all right.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Now schools may have something of a road map: Taking race into account is verboten, but consideration of neighborhood, socioeconomics and other factors might be all right.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2024

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