thank God
Also, thank goodness or heaven. I'm grateful, as in Thank God you arrived safely, or We didn't, thank goodness, run out of food, or Thank heaven the book arrived on time. These ejaculations originally expressed gratitude to divine providence but today tend to be used in a more casual way. [c. 1200]
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How to use thank God in a sentence
thank God it will soon be evacuated and replaced by two new prisons, SCI Phoenix I and II, just next door.
Here’s a Reform Even the Koch Brothers and George Soros Can Agree On | Tina Brown | November 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd thank God for it, since the problem is that public opinion was wrong.
“I have an unfortunate temper that flares up not too often, thank God,” Baquet says.
Dean Baquet, the NYT’s Executive Editor, on Jill Abramson, Race, Surviving Cancer—and TMZ Envy | Lloyd Grove | September 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“This is the first time I came back since the shelling, thank God,” says 27-year-old Bassem Adwan.
So thank God for people like your mother who can bring you back down to planet Earth.
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill on ‘22 Jump Street,’ Penis Kissing, and Julie Andrews’s Boobs | Kevin Fallon | June 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
And under these conditions we have already, thank God, baptized four of them.
But, thank God, their ambuscade was turned against themselves.
thank God, however, here we are in Switzerland, where everything goes on in its normal course.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyAnd I thank God, who gave me the temper to feel grief exquisitely, that he at the same time gave me an equal capacity for joy.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria Grahamthank God today would see the end, and they could once more have the hot South Polar crisis with their cereal.
We're Friends, Now | Henry Hasse
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