O.K., informally

Usage examples of alright.

She opened her mouth as if to ask if I were alright, but the next person in line distracted her.

I guess it was alright that he looked this good, but for a moment when I looked into that plump, smiling face, I was afraid.

I then suss them out and if they look alright, I tell them that my intended occupants are late and they can get in.

She had wanted to run over and see if the woman was alright, and find out who it was, but Efrem needed her help carrying the injured man.

Oriana was alright, but she knew he needed someone to stand strong for him.

TV screen, his best and only friend, the giant Zenith, literally bigger than he is, bigger than life, an angel, a devil, a god, sucking in amber waves of radiation that will cause his hair to repeal at twenty-three, watching Johnny fucking Quest fight the lizards and live the two-dimensional four-color good life like a young, cartoon Hemingway, wishing his mom and dad were there to hold him and tell him that everything was alright and to promise him that life would not become boring and predictable and that he would not wish for death while slurping booze in a death-disco fernless bar while being watched -- and he KNEW it -- through small eyes by two dead-fish women whose bitterness was oozing through their skin, literally, oozing, only to be held in check by a wall, a fortification, really, of caked-on, buckling makeup, psychically pin-pricked by these lumps of plodding DNA?

A rather portly woman passing by saw her apparently sobbing into a towel and stormed over with a couple of similarly-indignant friends to ask in a rather accusatory tone if everything was alright, already glaring daggers at me.

After they went on this way for a while Aunt Mae said alright, like I knew she wanted to say when they first asked her.

Most of them acted like they were afraid of Mother ever coming down into town and just asked me to be sure she was alright up on the hill.

Most of all Edwina wanted to see a specialist to make sure that Teddy was alright and Fannie did not lose her frostbitten fingers.

Edwina continued to hear from her aunt Liz, although letters were few and far between, and they were coming out of Europe by circuitous routes, but she seemed to be alright in spite of dreadful weather and terrible shortages of fuel and food.

I was quite alright last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had a small symptom of it last night already.

I want to be told it will be alright, but I am far too old to believe such comforting lies.

They were getting ready to transfer him to the work camp at Comstock and would only let me see him for a few minutes He was doing alright, I guess, but he still has more than three years to serve.

Every time I drew breath I could hear Merle whispering, "It's alright, it's alright, Anita, it's alright.