How to use "news" in a sentence

The boulders are both good and bad news

The good news is that I should be able to climb over many of them

The bad news is that the boulders could move

The bad news reached Aron's mother

By 10.00 am, the good news had reached Elliot, Steve, and Mrs Ralston

This is bad news

It was good news: if I played in their football team, there was a place for me in school there.

Why wasn't I ready for that news? I don't know, but I wasn't

'What is the news of that poor man Meltham? Is he dead yet?'

'You asked Mr Sampson several times if he had any news about Meltham

I can give you news about him - I am Meltham!' he announced triumphantly.

At 1.30 when the news came that the dogs were not coming, he told McCarthy to break open the door

He knocked on the doors of people's houses, but news of his arrival had quickly spread and nobody would offer him shelter from the cold

Fantine, meanwhile, found work in Montreuil and asked for news of her daughter every month

Every day, according to one of the servants, a white-haired, well-dressed gentleman came to ask for news of the sick man.

'She comes here every day in the shape of an old man who asks for news of you

And on the television screens there are giant faces, clips from movies, news headlines, commercials for cars and perfume, chocolate and beer.

But then the songs stop, and the news report starts

"Jesus!" he screams, and he remembers the news story on the radio.

Another one! The news had spread about Pod Life, and other students had been discussing it all weekend

Sala began to realize why this news was so awful

Dad came home with the news yesterday afternoon, and he and Mom have been really depressed ever since."

"We can't spread this news any further

She pulled Cham away from the entrance and quickly told him the news about Gran's letter.

"Great news

Cham was enthusiastic, but he didn't seem to think the news had anything to do with him

and anyway, maybe she would come back with exciting news for everyone.

She's been hoping all week for more news

"I have news, Mom

We're waiting for news."

With no Cham to talk to, and no news from Wena, the week went by very slowly for Sala.

She was desperate to let him know the exciting news

"And we have news."

'I'm afraid I've got some bad news for Mr de Winter

'What sort of news, Captain Searle?' I asked him.

'This news is a shock to you, of course?'

But then, a few weeks ago, she had begun to slip back into the dreadful condition in which she'd wallowed immediately after she'd received news of the accident

If Danny were alive, and if someone were trying to get that news to you, it wouldn't be done like this, not with all these dramatic hints

They appeared to be genuinely surprised by this news, and Elliot was pretty sure they weren't the people who had been trying to scare Tina

Maybe we've already got enough to convince them it's big news

Surely, if someone from Project Pandora had told her what had happened to that busload of scouts, she wouldn't have reacted to the news with equanimity

The moment that the news media became aware of the Network's existence, all was lost.

"Should I maybe go listen to the news?" Billy Sandstone asked

She had seen Anne Protheroe just after the Inspector had told her the news.

But it was Mary, not Dennis, who brought us the sensational news next morning

But after the sad news...' It was Miss Marple

'Isn't the news awful? A murder! In this quiet village.'

I thought that, of course, the news they had heard must be the same thing

'What's the news?'

'I've got one bit of news for you, Clement

'Oh, that is good news! He will be safe there.' She was looking at the pillbox

Lawrence Redding was not an innocent man, and so the news that Mrs Sadler had seen him change Mr Hawes' pills did indeed make him do 'something stupid'.

He was very excited at the news and invited me to spend the night with him, watching the red planet.

'What news from the common?' I said.

'What news from the common?' I repeated.

The milkman came as usual and I asked him the latest news

I shouted after him, 'What news?'

I have read, in another description of these events, that on Sunday morning 'all London was panicked by the news from Woking.' In fact, this is simply not true

Besides this, Londoners are very used to feeling safe, and exciting news is so normal in the papers that they could read reports like this without great fear:

The Sunday papers printed separate editions as further news came in

Certainly people were excited by the news, whatever they had felt before

Some of the refugees were exchanging news with the people on the buses

My brother spoke to several of the refugees but none could give him any news of Woking, except one man who said that it had been totally destroyed the previous night.

There were one or two carts with refugees going along Oxford Street, but the news was spreading so slowly that Regent Street and Portland Place were full of people taking their usual Sunday night walk

As we passed other small towns, we found them unaffected by either Heat-Ray or Black Smoke, and there were some people alive, although none could give us news

From there the happy news had flashed all over the world; a thousand cities, living in great fear, suddenly- turned on all their lights.

Men on bicycles rode through the countryside shouting the news to all.

'I am well.' But everything about her said bad news.

I mean the shoes.' Now the bad news was out.

My Italian friend Pesca was there, and he had good news for me

I told Laura the good news, then she went for a walk alone by the lake, and I went to my room

Mrs Michelson told me that Laura had gone to London, where she'd become ill and died! This terrible news made me ill again, and I was unable to leave that house for another three weeks

I have heard the news of a certain gentleman's death

Buzzfeed Japan, which is a news website, has started a MeToo page with stories about the movement in Japan