golly

Example Sentences

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“If you could see the pile of rubble, by golly, what a job that’s going to be.”

From Washington Post

Golly, I wonder what will happen if we all get diarrhea or something.

From Los Angeles Times

“Do you ever think, Greg, when you put on your visor in the morning and set up your laptop so that you can sit in a virtual meeting typing on your virtual laptop, ‘Golly, we took a wrong turn here, as a society’?”

From Washington Post

"Believe it or not pretending that I’m ok has actually helped … so I decided to post this quote today because by golly if you’re going through hell … I feel like Instagram has helped me have a cool outlet to share my presence … existence … and to simply feel like I matter despite what I was going through and hey it worked … so I’ve decided to start reading more fairy tales," the "Toxic" singer concluded her post.

From Fox News

Accompanying watercolors explore negative representations of African-Americans, like the racist “golly dolls” of the late 19th-century.

From New York Times