Sentence examples for golly from inspiring English sources

Golly, yes! Verges that look freshly trimmed by industrious eastern Europeans while we were still in our pyjamas?

"By golly, I just hate these unamerican [sic] shoes!" wrote Lynwood Hines from Saint George, South Carolina.

But golly, it's still looking great".

It signed a trade deal with America, streamlined rules for starting new businesses, went on selling smaller state companies and, golly, opened a stockmarket in Ho Chi Minh City.It is not yet clear whether the other two members of the top troika will keep their jobs.

One huge trove of avoidance-words (Gosh, golly, goodness) avoids "God", and another (jeez, jeepers, jiminy cricket) spares Christianity's founder the offence of hearing his name profaned.Some think that such taboos cannot survive advancing secularisation in the West.

But, by golly, we are green and cuddly, like a Martian teddy bear.Yet at a time when policies on climate change are coming under scrutiny, the European Union's flagship programme, the emission-trading scheme, is in serious trouble.

Europeans may not be able to fight wars, to cut unemployment or to integrate their minorities: but by golly they have economic heft.

"By golly", he recalls, "she was absolutely right: this was an interesting compound".Mr Shulgin left Dow to pursue psychoactive chemistry full-time.

This wish to give a likable name may go so far that a sequence of sounds is chosen that sounds pleasant to the person who makes the choice but that has no relation to the existing stock of names or to the words of the language; e.g., "Golly" was invented as a name of a girl and has no "meaning" or associations.

But, by golly, I didn't expect him to deliver quite such a battering.

In Joss Stone's case, this was crystallised by her catastrophic appearance at the 2007 Brit Awards, where her natural ditzy ingenuousness was exacerbated by being delivered in a broad American drawl: from golly-gosh to aaw-shucks, that most unforgivable of betrayals.