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Example sentences for "for goodness"

  • For goodness' sake let's try to be healthy and clear about this!

  • Now, Ethel Lanier, for goodness' sake stop fidgeting like a nervous old maid!

  • And then regaining control of herself she had turned upon him quickly: "Oh, be sensible, for goodness' sake!

  • Therefore, for goodness sake, and as you are known The first and happiest hearers of the town, Be sad, as we would make ye.

  • There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it; And nothing is at a like goodness still; For goodness, growing to a plurisy, Dies in his own too-much.

  • For goodness' sake, don't shower any more compliments on Jacqueline Ralston or we won't be able to live with her.

  • For goodness' sake, don't make an exhibition of yourself.

  • For goodness' sake, don't add lying to all the rest of it.

  • Well, for goodness' sake don't put on that resigned, pious, martyr sort of air.

  • For goodness' sake, Käte, think it well over.

  • For goodness' sake, come and have lunch with me, and let's talk over everything.

  • For goodness sake," John begged, "stick to the jungle and leave the farmyard alone.

  • For goodness' sake, pull yourself together," she said cuttingly.

  • For goodness' sake, let those things alone, can't you?

  • What, for goodness' sake, is a buddy, and why must I have one?

  • For goodness' sake don't any one start symptoms and spoil the fun.

  • You'll have to study French and Italian, but what we mean is for goodness' sake don't stick on all the airs and graces that some of these foreign girls do.

  • Oh, do, for goodness' sake, look less like a statue of melancholy!

  • For goodness' sake, don't talk in that way!

  • Doctor, don't talk like that, for goodness' sake!

  • For goodness' sake mind you don't drop the match, Mr Dickenson," said the captain suddenly.

  • Oh, for goodness' sake, don't do anything of the kind!

  • For goodness' sake, take a grip on yourself!

  • For goodness' sake, Bill, if you know the answer, tell me.

  • For goodness' sake, explain it, my dear boy.

  • Now, for goodness' sake, stay still, Miss Heather, while I tie your things.

  • For goodness' sake, buy it quick and don't haggle.

  • For goodness' sake, Eric, do what you're told!

  • For goodness' sake, Preston, tell me what we are to do.

  • Yes, do, for goodness' sake, man, before I go mad.

  • And now, for goodness' sake, let's get to some civilised place where we can have a cup of coffee and a glass of wine.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for goodness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    early summer; for aught; for fear; for her; for his mercy endureth for ever; for indeed; for nothing; for some time past; for the simple reason; for there; for those; force against; force under; foreign body; foreign commodities; foreign goods; foreign immigration; foreign markets; foreign power; form water; formed from; former birth; former experience; former journey; former letters; formerly known