How to use "well" in a sentence

So far, things are going well

Kristi and Megan don't know me very well

I've done quite well, but one thought still worries me: I haven't chipped much rock from the boulder

It works well and I feel a bit better.

For someone close to death I have done well

While I was taking them, I couldn't do anything well

I learnt to use it quite well

"You mean well never go home again? That's impossible!"

She didn't feel well and she was very unhappy.

Alice did not feel very well

On the practice field, things didn't start very well

I ran well, and we won 35 to 3

It went well, and I played with them every night after that.

But things did not go well

No, things didn't go very well

The business was doing well, but I asked myself, 'What are you doing all this for?' And I knew that I had to get away.

This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "Unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned

Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that "the citizen of each State shall be entitled to all privileged and immunities of citizens in the several States?"

The fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself

The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all

If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize, as we have never realized before, our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress can be made, no leadership becomes effective.

We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom - symbolizing an end as well as a beginning - signifying renewal as well as change

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

He seemed about forty years old and he was very well dressed

The other niece is also not well

I was sorry to see that Miss Niner did not look very well at all

This was Inspector Abbeline, a fine detective who knew the East End and its people very well

The next day she told Amelia she did not feel well

Mrs Darrell could not describe the man very well

That night it rained hard and Mrs Cox could not sleep well

He certainly lived or worked in the Whitechapel area because he knew it very well

But he had only arrived in England the year before, so how could he know the area as well as the Ripper? And is it possible that Jack the Ripper changed from savagely killing prostitutes to poisoning barmaids?

The killer's terrible mutilation of Mary Kelly's face suggests that he knew her well

'Sleep well,' he said

'But what about the candlesticks? I gave you those as well, don't you remember? They're silver like the rest, and worth at least two hundred francs

At the end of the year, however, Thenardier was not happy with just seven francs a month; he demanded twelve and Fantine paid without protest, happy that her daughter was being well cared for.

First you must get well.'

As well as the joy of seeing her in the Gardens, he now had the pleasure of following her home

'Not well.' Jondrette smiled sadly

'If you blow up the barricade,' a sergeant called, 'you'll blow up yourself as well!'

Valjean tore pieces oft his own shirt and bandaged Marius's wounded shoulder as well as he could

'I'll give you this as well,' he said

Oh well

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

When Valjean did not appear for the second evening, Cosette sent a servant to his house to ask if he was well

Valjean replied that he was very well, but that he had business to attend to

Oh well, I suppose we can relax.'

It suited the girl so extremely well that everybody called her Little Red Riding Hood.

"Ay, well, just for 10 minutes then."

well, why don't we come at night? Isn't it better at night, Nick?"

"And these, Eleanor, well, how to describe them..

"Oh, well, I suppose we can change the subject, but we are having a really interesting conversation."

"Okay, well, it's not my idea, and it's old, but I think it's great for a film

well, I prefer fire."

A sound he knows well

"No, well, not really," the secretary says quietly.

"Ah, well

"Er, well, yes I did notice, Sir."

"Ha, well, I need to show you how to do it safely, so we need to go up to the old Abertreweren forest."

well, she surprised me

well, I suppose I'm silly to ask

Studying at home helped with overcrowding, used less energy, and made teaching easier: well, that's what the government said.

I'll see you again, the woman had said: well, then, there was really nothing to do but wait.

well, it's given me hope."

Our two sons are doing well, and we have three grandchildren

I'm sure Cham's parents are good people, but we don't know them well enough."

Each time, Leti typed in a complicated code to let them in, as well as waiting by the recognition screen

So the word 'passenger' describes you very well, don't you think?"

They met with friends, especially Palo and Ding, who were entering the pods as well

And the fruit - well, maybe they found it somewhere in the city

We've been having a lot of fun! This week, they gave us the chance to try snowboarding as well as skiing."

They're doing really well.

Here, Mrs Van Hopper found out which well-known people were staying in the town

Then, pretending to know them well, she asked her victims rude questions in her loud American voice.

'There isn't one well-known person here,' she said in her loud voice

She would enjoy giving orders to the nurse as well as to me.

'I haven't done this very well, have I?' Maxim said

'Everyone well?'

We hope you are well

'Yes, we are both well, thank you, Frith

'Very well,' she said

I think you've done very well, Mrs Danvers.'

'I expect we'll get on well when she knows me better,' I said

I had slept well and came downstairs a little after nine o'clock

Maxim looks very well

'Will your husband hold the Manderley Fancy Dress Ball this year? I remember the last one so well

'Oh well, you are very young, aren't you? We can't all do everything

Oh well, it doesn't matter, I thought

'Maxim's very well, he's in London,' I said.

'You don't look well,' Beatrice said

'Oh well,' she said, 'I suppose he knows Mrs Danvers quite well.'

There is a shop in Bond Street that would do it really well

I knew the picture well

Sleep well.'

I knew her well

'Mrs Danvers, you're not well

'Very well,' Frank said

'Very well, go on,' said the Coroner.

If I had two or three thousand pounds, I could live quite well

You knew the late Mrs de Winter well

He's a very well-known women's doctor.'

'I knew Mrs de Winter very well

She landed a position as choreographer for a two-bit lounge revue, a dismally cheap imitation of the multimillion-dollar Lido, and eventually she took over the costumer's job as well

He had become not just a valued business associate, but a good friend as well, a big brother.

Helen was by nature everything that poor Charlie struggled to be: impeccably well mannered, sophisticated, graceful, at ease and confident in any situation

She was tall, slender, striking, fifty-five years old but able to pass for a well-preserved forty.

"And handles them very well," Helen said

She knew it well

But how was that possible? How in the name of God could there be ice here, in a well-heated house and on a night when the outside temperature was at least twenty degrees above the freezing point?

Helen Mainway chattered excitedly about the spectacular special effects, and Elliot Stryker had an endless supply of compliments as well as some astute observations about the technical aspects of the production, and Charlie Mainway poured a third bottle of Dom PS 233; rignon, and the house lights came up, and the audience reluctantly began to leave, and Tina hardly had a chance to sip her champagne because of all the people who stopped by the table to congratulate her.

When the aisle in front of her booth was finally empty of well-wishers, Tina got up and met Joel as he started to come to her

If he was faking innocence, he was a much better actor than she thought he was, and she thought she knew him well indeed

You know damn well the down payment for the house came out of my earnings

Tina kept a well-stocked bar in one corner of her office for those infrequent occasions when a business associate needed a drink after a long work session

No one in his right mind would take boys as young as twelve into the deepest parts of the Sierras, no matter how well prepared, supplied, and trained they were, no matter how strong, no matter how many big brothers were there to look out for them."

I started sleeping well then

"I dream he's alive, trapped somewhere, usually in a deep pit or a gorge or a well, someplace underground

I'll admit I don't know you all that well yet, but I think I know you well enough to say you wouldn't react that way

"Whoever the creep is, whatever his motivations are, he's not well-balanced

As Elliot rinsed the second snifter and placed it in the rack, Tina said, "You do that very well."

He must be totally secure in his estimation of his talents if he is to function well in the kitchen."

"Then I'd eat your serving as well as mine."

"I know you so well."

He spent an hour and a half in his library, paging through legal casebooks, boning up on precedents for the exhumation of a body that, as the court had put it, "was to be disinterred in the absence of a pressing legal need, solely for humane reasons, in consideration of certain survivors of the deceased." Elliot didn't think Harold Kennebeck would give him any trouble, and he didn't expect the judge to request a list of precedents for something as relatively simple and harmless as reopening Danny's grave, but he intended to be well prepared

"Yeah, well, that's ivory tower stuff," Bob said, nervously straightening his tie.

If this was what Danny had read before going to bed at night, how had he been able to sleep so well? He'd always been a deep, unmoving sleeper, never troubled by bad dreams.

In letters that were supposed to look as if they had been formed from rotting shroud cloth, the artist had emblazoned the title across the top of the first page, above a somber, well-detailed scene of a rain-swept graveyard

And even if she had seen the color illustration before, she knew damned well that she hadn't read the story - The Boy Who Was Not Dead

That was a fact as well.

He's well versed in the law, and he's fair."

He might as well have saved his breath

The boys couldn't have gotten very close to such a well-guarded place

He can't handle a deck well enough to stack it while he's shuffling

You argued your case pretty well."

He had a well-formed face with high cheekbones, a narrow straight nose, and thin lips

Part of this antagonism between them rose because they had been born into utterly different worlds and were equally proud of their origins - as well as disdainful of all others

If he's aged as well as he seems to have done, then he might even be sharper these days."

So if you look at it that way, it worked out as well as it possibly could."

The Network was financed with some difficulty, to be sure, but it was undeniably well funded

An executive jet for the chief of the vital Nevada bureau was not an extravagance, and Alexander believed his improved performance over the past year had convinced the old man in Washington that this was money well spent.

He was in chains, sitting in the center of a small, well-lighted cavern, but the passageway that led to him was shadowy and reeked of danger

well, maybe Danny will find a way to show us exactly where he is."

There must be some sort of road into the place, even if it's well concealed

This wasn't insurance against the unforeseen; this was simply prudent planning for the trouble they could foresee all too well.

The intersecting hall began directly in front of them, across from the guardroom, and bored at least four hundred feet into the mountain; a long row of doors waited on each side of it, and other corridors opened off it as well.

It was ringed by ordinary medical equipment as well as by several mysterious electronic monitors.

'Everything went well until a year later,' said John Openshaw

'If this little animal is still alive and well in a month, we can then consider the experiment a success.'

He did not tell me first, knowing very well that I would never have agreed to such an experiment with our dog

If you don't wish to be seen, I'll make you a mask until you get well again

I thought about Dr Stone, who was a well-known archaeologist

'In fact I was in my garden from five o'clock onwards yesterday and from there, well, I can see everything that is happening next door.'

And then tell Mrs Protheroe that Mr Redding is innocent - well, then they might both tell you the truth.'

'He's not very well this morning

And if he says he did it, well, then he did.

'If a thing reminds you of something else - well, it's probably the same type of thing.'

I told him he should be in bed but he said that he was perfectly well

If you are alone and do not want to see people - well, the only thing to do is to let them ring.'

'Did you know Colonel Protheroe well?'

'I can't remember it very well,' said Lawrence

But if only that shot hadn't come just at the end of the call - well, I'd know where to look.'

She's - well, she's a lady.'

On Tuesday I shall return.' Dr Stone attempted to leave, carrying the suitcase, as well as a large coat and a bag of books

Lucius was very well off and he left things equally divided between me and Lettice

But if the robbery was reported, well, the things couldn't be sold at all.'

You are not well...'

'I am perfectly well

I had known him rather well

But I have heard that she has said she was at home all the time and that she didn't answer the door because - well, she didn't want to see me!'

And I looked through them as well, but there was no one in the house.'

Then suddenly, just as I was leaving Mr Clement's study, I noticed the plant in the pot by the window - and - well, there it was! Clear as day!'

But Miss Marple just smiled and continued, 'I liked Anne and Lawrence, so when they both confessed in that silly way - well, I was happy that I had been wrong

'Suppose Dr Haydock mentioned that Mrs Sadler had seen him changing the pills in Mr Hawes' box - well, if Mr Redding is innocent, that would mean nothing to him

But mother - well, I shall be with her till the end...' She got up and I held her hand

'However,' she added, 'I'm going to be very serious and well behaved from now on.'

I have also decided that since now I'm going to be a real "wife and mother" I must look after the house as well

So we quickly started to talk about the Protheroe case, and of 'Dr Stone', who had turned out to be a well-known thief

It was also not generally understood that because Mars is older and smaller than our Earth, and further from the sun, it is nearer life's end as well as further from its beginning.

I do not think I would have known anything about it myself if I had not met Ogilvy, the well-known astronomer

There was a man with his wife and two boys and some pieces of furniture in a cart, and close behind him came another one with five or six well-dressed people and some boxes and cases

They aimed their guns well and fired at a distance of about one kilometer.

The man, who looked very well built, tried to move in closer, but my brother hit him in the face

The soldier had taught me well and I looked for food and drink and a spare shirt to take with me

Here and there along the road, and in Sunbury itself, were dead bodies of horses as well as men, turned-over carts and luggage, all covered thickly with black dust

He was fat, red- faced, middle-aged, well-dressed; perhaps earlier he had been important

'We're working well,' he said

This money was invested, and she can live very well with the income from it

If you come home with me, all will be well

'After that everything went well, but one day I returned home early

I now feel rather well, except for my liver problem

Who wants a whole week of seasickness? You leave on Monday and you're feeling well

We'll be so tired at the end of the day, that we'll sleep well.'

You're not feeling well

He looks like a good, well-behaved dog

George did his job well, but Harris was completely confused.

I didn't sleep well

We didn't sleep well at all

Here's to Three Men well out of a boat!'

The possibility of the other man actually coming to fetch her - oh well

'But what? It's my fault - is that what you're saying? I didn't do well enough in the exams, so I can't be a teacher

And marriage - well, it's you who are delaying it

I've been thinking she manages very well

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

He drove to the Seaway, to a part of the beach they knew very well

'Don't I agree? But we're well

'If I were you, I would stop worrying because it seems Mercy can take care of herself quite well,' said James.

As soon as Miss Halcombe and my wife are well enough, they'll go to stay with their uncle in Cumberland

I'll stay until Miss Halcombe is well enough to leave, but then I must go.'

I know that he's your enemy as well as mine

I'll send you money every month on two conditions: you must keep the secret and never tell anyone, in your own interest as well as mine; and you must never leave the village.'

The people who had been at the funeral were all invited to come and see that Laura, Lady Glyde, was in fact alive and well

Women could not do well, she said, because of their bad education.

In countries where women do well, she said, everyone does well.