Sentence examples for cripes from inspiring English sources

"HOLY cripes, Google just broke into my home", was a typical reaction on Twitter to news on January 13th that the internet giant had splashed out $3.2 billion of its cash pile on Nest, a startup that makes smart thermostats and smoke-alarm systems for houses and apartments.

It was not Johnson's politics which most offended these august members of the left-wing commentariat but the fact that he had once been a member of the socially pretentious Bullingdon Club, and that he continues to talk like a character out of a PG Wodehouse novel ("Cripes!" etc).

This is the 10-year anniversary of Al Gore's global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which we watched and thought "Cripes, jolly serious stuff" – and then carried on with our lives as though it were a science-fiction film about an imaginary planet, not a documentary about our own.

Livingstone says that the mayor of a city the size of London has to be right on ninety per cent of all decisions and a hundred per cent of the big decisions — an implication that it's a job in which "Cripes!" won't do.

I looked around the room and thought, Cripes.

It's what some have called his "Cripes!" or "Oh, crikey!" presentation.

"It comes from the 1870s, originating in Rugby school and then Oxford University where we had rugger, footer and a six in cricket was known as a criper.

Invers, Blowers, Aggers and Pougers are all brilliant broadcasters and were all sent to schools with brilliant invoicing departments, as was I, but being a Scot, Campbers is hit for a criper.

"This isn't North Korea, for cripe's sake," General McCaffrey said at a conference in Miami attended by dozens of current and former officials who have helped draw up Colombia policy.

On Nov. 5, Cripe said the disease was in "complete remission" and that Pagano would undergo two more rounds of chemotherapy to ensure all the cancer cells had been destroyed.

Mr. Cripe's product, wrenched from female fish after their necks have been broken, glows with a deep umber color and packs a marine umami punch.