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Definition of "make good" []

  • To achieve substantial success in life, often in business. (verb)
  • : To complete successfully. (verb)

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Use "make good" in a sentence
  • "My only hope was foolish hope, that I would leave half the women on the trail to bushwhack whoever was chasing us, giving the rest of us a chance to make good the escape, or we would slip our pursuers through dumb luck."
  • "As the chestnut lunged to make good its escape, Sharon ran an intercepting course that would place her directly in the path of the horses and hopefully prevent them from bolting down the ranch lane to the road."
  • "The ultimate in sequential ordering is performed on this stratospheric plane, which takes in the ability to make good use of deductive and inductive logic and to reason and problem-solve in asystematic sequential manner."
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