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Example sentences for "goodby"

Lexicographically close words:
gooan; gooas; goobers; good; gooda; goodbye; goode; goodes; goodest; goodies
  1. I felt somehow that I would have liked to say goodby to him, but I was afraid that he would ask me why I, in his absence on that terrible day, had not prevented Geoghen from doing what he did--and my conscience made a coward of me.

  2. Oh, I just wanted to say goodby to you," he said hurriedly.

  3. Toby looked another goodby at the venerable monkey, who was watching him closely, and then followed his employer out of the tent, among the ropes and poles and general confusion attendant upon the removal of a circus from one place to another.

  4. He was in a great perplexity, until the thought came to him that he could write a goodby to her, and by this means any unpleasant discussion would be avoided.

  5. The little girl whose acquaintance he had made the night previous was still sleeping; and, wishing to say goodby to her in some way without awakening her, he stooped down and gently kissed the skirt of her dress.

  6. Be careful, now, for if they should catch you, goodby any more chances to get away.

  7. There was one more goodby to be said, and that Toby dreaded more than all the others.

  8. Looking up, he saw Ben standing before him, and he wiped his eyes hastily, for here was another from whom he must part and to whom a goodby must be spoken.

  9. Why didn't he come in to say goodby before he went?

  10. We should all have liked to have said goodby to him.

  11. Then do I quite understand, uncle, that all I have got to do is to make a round of calls to say goodby to everyone?

  12. By this time the party was breaking up, and for the next half hour the Rajah was occupied in bidding goodby to his guests.

  13. He had busied himself up to the last moment in looking to the saddling of the two horses, and had only gone into the house and said goodby to the ladies just when it was time to start.

  14. Good luck, John, and goodby till then," said Mr. Ewart.

  15. I must say goodby here, my dear; they won't let me in to the train.

  16. On the first day we had dull overcast skies that threatened rain; the chill wind roughened the lakes and river, and made dismal crossings of the portages at one of which we bade goodby to Andre's son.

  17. We bade them goodby at the entrance to the hospital; then my husband and I went down and into the great city, the heart of which had been shown to us because we had seen, at last, into our own.

  18. I hope it won't be goodby for another six weeks, Marcia.

  19. I am not reconciled to say goodby to you here, Gordon," he said.

  20. Joe said goodby to his companions and sauntered down to the jail, which was located on the southeast edge of the town.

  21. He said goodby to his chums, and, after having stopped in the store to make his purchases, strolled down to the railroad station, to await the possible coming of Reggie.

  22. Joe, half in a daze, said goodby to his hosts, last of all to Mabel.

  23. For five minutes there was an animated discussion, and then, with a cordial goodby to Hughson, the three entered the waiting taxicab and were whirled back to the Polo Grounds.

  24. Chapter Sixteen--In Which Sailor Ben Spins a Yarn Of course we were all very curious to learn what had befallen Sailor Ben that morning long ago, when he bade his little bride goodby and disappeared so mysteriously.

  25. Tears streamed down my face as I bade goodby to Mrs. Stevenson.

  26. We were covered with flowers when we reached the deck of our ship the next day and as we backed out of the dock their band played Aloha, their goodby song.

  27. They all bade me goodby and said all manner of nice things.

  28. When his son bade him goodby as he started for the Philippines, Judge Hare said, "My boy, God bless you; find Gilmore and bring him home!

  29. If so, goodby to life and to the message.

  30. But they had to bid goodby to William Wells; his new father lived in another village.

  31. Except goodby to the old black crow-- The rollicking old black crow!

  32. And by and by, when Jack Rabbit and Mr. Turtle said goodby and went away, he hurried back to the table, and was just going to take the C.

  33. Then here's goodby to the old black Crow, And the rest, with a one, two, three!

  34. That was Oliver's hard task now, to say goodby to all, hardest of all to those of his father's house.

  35. In the afternoon, from Lexington to Stony point, and goodby to Mrs. Fox, that sister Minnie of the May's Lick days.

  36. There upon the bank stood the two friends who had so joyously bidden us goodby only a few hours before.

  37. Consequently the remaining three wagons, including Captain and Mrs. Wadsworth, bade us goodby and pulled out in the morning.

  38. In the morning we bade them all goodby (some of them for the last time), swung into our saddles, and moved on.

  39. Starting out quite early, they bade us goodby with hearty cheer, saying they would let the folks in California know that we were coming, etc.

  40. Why of course I am, sorry to say goodby to you.

  41. She had not been able to exchange a word with either of them on their arrival at the chateau, and knew nothing of their experiences in the last few days since they had said goodby at the farmhouse on the Aisne.

  42. Aren't you sorry to say goodby except to France?

  43. Polly's father and mother were at Pebbly Pit and they wired their regrets that they could not join the merry mariners, but John and Anne expected to arrive in New York in time to say goodby to the party.

  44. The former three guests were dressed for travel, and Polly was up in order to say a last goodby to her family members and to Tom.

  45. After they had been a while with us they bade us goodby and we made signs to them that they should go and get us some fish with two hooks which I gave them.

  46. So he gave presents of glass beads to all the women, they regaled us with their cacomites, and we said goodby to everybody in order to continue on our way.

  47. Well, perhaps she went to say goodby to the pigs.

  48. I am going away, too, for a vacation, so I must say goodby today.

  49. In the morning the goodby is cheerfully spoken, for no shadow of death looms forward as a warning; at sunset the block has fallen, and the dying man is borne by his comrades to the heart-broken wife.

  50. Before the company started westward, Uncle Brigham, in bidding me goodby said: "Johnny, I will give you a little advice.

  51. The boys eagerly agreed to this plan, and by the time it was settled they were at the ferry where they said goodby to Captain Long.

  52. They gave us a good supper and we bade them goodby and started north, listening all the time for approaching horses from either direction.

  53. After getting everything ready we bade goodby to brother William and Wilson, and started early in the morning.

  54. As it was to be the last night at home, most of the boys had gone to bid their friends goodby and had remained with them for the night.

  55. I took my package and bade the girl and her mother goodby and started for the woods.

  56. Price and his staff prepared to go to Mexico and seven of us--Buchanan and Platte County neighbor boys--saddled our horses, bade him goodby and started for home.

  57. Was she questioned, or did she say anything about whether, when he left the bedroom and went into the kitchen to make his breakfast, whether he returned to her and said goodby to her?

  58. About a hundred yards beyond the end of the train they climbed into a car that was parked on the road that runs alongside the tracks and after telling me goodby with another bullet that missed me, too, Steve had the car started.

  59. She waved goodby to David, carrying away with her as she sped to the cook tent the heart-filling sweetness and tenderness of his answering smile.

  60. I cannot ask you to come up to the house; but whenever you have settled on anything leave a note with Dorothy for me, and I will come down with Alice to see you and say goodby to you.

  61. With a hearty goodby on both sides, Jack and his two dragoons rode off, and soon astonished the English vedettes by their appearance on the opposite bank of the river.

  62. Going back to his quarters, after saying goodby to Bianca, he realized what Sonya's words and manner must have meant.

  63. We have been such good friends and I hate saying goodby forever to people I like.

  64. You know when you return to New York I want Captain Martin to find you as well as when you said goodby to him.

  65. Then so many things distracted Sonya Clark's attention that she thought no more of the little deserted French girl until she and Bianca looked for her to say goodby and found that the child had disappeared.

  66. I shall probably say goodby to you tomorrow and go back home, but I want you to realize, Mrs. Clark, how much I have appreciated everybody's kindness to me here and how much I like and admire American girls.

  67. He then withdrew, leaving the lad to say goodby to his brother and sister alone.

  68. But how could I go away and know that you had thought us so strange and ungrateful as to go away without saying goodby after your dear feyther giving his life for little Jenny.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goodby" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.