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How to use goodness knows in a sentence

What happened to true love knows no boundaries and all that?
Freaking Out About Age Gaps in Gay Relationships Is Homophobic|Samantha Allen|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I wonder what that lady is doing now, and if she knows what she set in motion with Archer?
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As anybody who has seen his now famous rant on Parks and Recreation knows, Patton Oswalt can get a little obsessed.
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire|William O’Connor|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Yet, for god knows what reason, his name is never brought up in the “Great American Filmmaker” conversation.
Oscars 2015: The Daily Beast’s Picks, From Scarlett Johansson to ‘Boyhood’|Marlow Stern|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Thankfully, his assistant knows these roads like the back of his hand.
The Photographer Who Gave Up Manhattan for Marrakech|Liza Foreman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
That she had her definite reason he knew, as a woman knows when another woman is wearing a last year's gown.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
And he stood up in the shameful fall of the people: in the goodness and readiness of his soul he appeased God for Israel.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Old Pit Town knows lots of good people, and would give us letters, I suppose.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
In truth, M. de Biancourt's goodness and prudence seemed much shaken by this tempest of human passions.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
Perhaps Mademoiselle Zizine, of the French theatre, was the reason—who knows?
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills