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Example sentences for "goodness knows"

  • Lady Valleys answered with a shrug: "Goodness knows, my dear.

  • She says nothing, but it is clear that she is harping on this engagement, which is an engagement and no engagement, and--goodness knows what.

  • Goodness knows, the pen isn't much of a mining-pick, but with it I have contrived to dig out a year in Europe.

  • And, goodness knows, you've had enough to knock you out and to make you think all sorts of grubby thoughts.

  • He's prayed enough in his life, goodness knows!

  • In the years I've lived with Hilary Vane I've seen enough of politicians, goodness knows.

  • Goodness knows, it ain't Hilary I came to talk about.

  • Meanwhile--goodness knows how--the Moujik's ground began to get all right.

  • But just as they were going to sing the cherubim song,[406] there suddenly arose, goodness knows whence, so terrible a whirlwind that all the congregation fell flat on their faces.

  • Goodness knows, I bin use ter dat sence de day my whiskers 'gun to bleach.

  • Goodness knows, it took asking enough before the money was granted for new ones.

  • The people listened and clapped their hands with delight and cried out goodness knows what.

  • Pretty nearly all my life, and that's long enough, goodness knows.

  • And from what I've seen of you, goodness knows, you don't ACT like one!

  • And you'll be away off, goodness knows where, among goodness knows what sorts of queer people and queer places.

  • She's a nice quiet child, and you are saving her from goodness knows what, here!

  • But Paul had only just reached the hall and was putting on his fur coat when to him appeared--goodness knows whence--the widow, Nastasia Petrovna.

  • Goodness knows why he thus suddenly became inspired, as it were, with the truth; but so it was.

  • It came out queerly enough in the uncle, goodness knows!

  • Goodness knows I've given up quite enough for you as it is.

  • And why not; he sowed it, goodness knows.

  • Got to do this to-night--goodness knows if I'll have time for it in the morning.

  • I answered, and then we both laughed again, goodness knows why, unless it was because we felt we were on the verge of unlocking the doors of each other's souls.

  • Goodness knows I had to when the old colonel used to go hanging around those English barmaids at the 'Cock and Hen.

  • Liddy's nerves are gone, she says, since that awful summer, but she has enough left, goodness knows!

  • Goodness knows what I might do to a fellow like that, if there was enough provocation, and I had a gun in my hand--under ordinary circumstances.

  • Goodness knows, I suppose that's the kind I'll have handed to me all year.

  • Goodness knows I'm trying hard to break myself of the habit.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goodness knows" 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:
    another planet; bright orange; determinate form; everything considered; evident that; fair size; farther north; free colored; going forward; goodness knows; natural means; richly decorated; said quickly; secure their; thick coating; through their; told them; true friend; turned suddenly; two days; various persons; will mean