How to Use good guy in a Sentence

good guy

noun
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  • First, was the idea about a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun.
    — Paul Vasquez, Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2024
  • Others didn’t go through that step and put the wrong one out, but, but Rob’s a good guy and.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
  • There was no good guy with a gun to protect us kids at school.
    — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The only way to stop a criminal with a gun, is a good guy with a gun.
    — Darlene Cerezo Swaffar, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 2024
  • Wayne always said that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a gun.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The hardest thing to explain was that my ex was always a good guy and a great dad.
    — Hoda Mallone, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • And there was a real good guy by the name of Daniel Powell who was the showrunner on, with Jessi Klein.
    — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
  • Her dad played at Delaware and was a big football fan and good guy.
    — Dave Skretta, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Is Kittridge a good guy or a bad guy in Dead Reckoning?
    — Time, 12 July 2023
  • Sandy lost her soulmate and the world lost a talented, handsome, all around good guy!
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Patrice Bergeron is a paragon of hockey virtue, a first-class player, leader, and all-time good guy.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • The character is complex, but nobody would call him a good guy.
    — Mark Harris, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • For some fans, the apology was enough: In their eyes, here was an otherwise good guy who’d made a mistake.
    — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Here’s hoping good guy Christian Arroyo, now playing in Worcester, gets back to the big leagues.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • One good guy with a gun could have stopped the evil criminals who opened fire on the crowd immediately.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
  • One neighbor described Craig Robertson as a good guy who could sometimes rub people the wrong way.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • What matters is declaring a good guy and a bad guy, where both of these roles are obvious and unchanging.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2024
  • Charlie, Sylvia’s husband as played by Luke Macfarlane, is a good guy.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
  • Raising Arizona is a fairy tale that points out that no good guy is ever all good, and the bad guys are just flawed characters who were raised wrong.
    — Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Republican lawmakers often argue that the thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
    — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
  • Yet Cook, the Duke economist, says this good guy/bad guy dichotomy is a false and dangerous one.
    — Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Turns out, the protein has a ‘good guy’ role, helping to protect against harmful free radicals in the brain and promoting healthy aging.
    — New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Playing the puppy-eyed good guy repeatedly is boring after a point.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Sep. 2023
  • So there’s no good guy in this struggle and therefore, there's unlikely to be any kind of outcome that the West is going to find favorable, or as that is likely to put Russia back on a more democratic course.
    — Gabriel Hays, Fox News, 24 June 2023
  • In our business, Mort was one of the wonderful combinations of writer, reporter, broadcaster, expert and good guy.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Things get particularly meta during one showdown in a saloon, in which our hero is pitted against … another good guy.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
  • There are archetypal good guy and bad boy figures who have been part of her life, whom everyone will transpose onto this material.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Cage's silent role is more stoic action hero than wacky goofball, as his taciturn good guy is suckered into cleaning a shut-down family restaurant and mops the floor with a bunch of demonic Chuck E. Cheese wannabes.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • Cage's silent role is more stoic action hero than wacky goofball, as his taciturn good guy is suckered into cleaning a shut-down family restaurant and mops the floor with a bunch of demonic Chuck E. Cheese wannabes.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
  • But Monkey Man is also, more than anything, proof of Patel’s commitment to moving beyond being the gentle, irreproachable good guy.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024

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