cripes

Example Sentences

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I was a pallbearer at her sister’s funeral, for cripes sake!

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2021

"I'll take a lot from you, but by cripes they's got to be a line drawed somewheres!"

From The Phantom Herd by Bower, B. M.

I've got a hold of it, and by cripes I'll knock a good turn out of it.

From Three Wonder Plays by Gregory, Lady

"Well, by cripes, I got a boy t' look out fer, and I ain't rich as some, but all I got goes in the pot!" cried Big Medicine impulsively.

From The Phantom Herd by Bower, B. M.

Then, after a kind of dazed once-over of the raft, fore-and-aft: “By cripes, the kid is gone!”

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)