goodness gracious
Example Sentences
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I wish to goodness gracious that PBS were in a position to do that.
From Salon • Feb. 25, 2025
Katie Hafner: So Lillian, oh my goodness gracious.
From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2023
“The future of our American miracle is on the line in a way that I have not seen since, goodness gracious, since maybe I was in high school,” Mr. Pompeo said.
From Washington Times • Mar. 3, 2023
“And I was like, goodness gracious, man, this guy’s got to step it up,” Brown recalled of the parade nearly a decade later.
From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2022
Eton and Harrow one knows, and the dame's schools one knows, but horrible Board Schools, or things, where they might say young Lord Lomond was brought up—oh, goodness gracious!
From The Marriage of Elinor by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
