Sentence examples for sake from inspiring English sources

"For heaven's sake.

For God's sake.

For goodness' sake, we can't even tell the difference between disappointed loathing and apathy - when any reasonable person knows there is no difference - they're one and the same thing and should both be ignored.

I just thought for his own sake, to get respect off the Liverpool fans, he had to give us at least one year.

Rather than serving either commercial considerations or following the whims of musicians, the work he accomplished as a sleeve designer betrayed a fierce independence, and an obvious belief in art for art's sake.

"I'm not a psychotherapist, for God's sake!" "According to her medical notes, she saw you for counselling," I say.

So, whether you're elected leaders (as in older universities such as mine) or appointed, your currency is the same: ill-conceived change to entrench the interests of your cliques and for the sake of being seen to do something.

Lighting up again, he says that throughout the disintegration of his marriage – with the ex he refuses to name here for reasons of privacy – he maintained his integrity and dignity, "for my children's sake".

Contact sport is heroic, character forming and British, for goodness sake.

Brushstroke's wine and sake list offers a great deal to go along with this food, at least if you seek the counsel of Seju Yang, the restaurant's puckish young sommelier.

He matched one recent meal entirely to wine, another to sake, for about what it would cost to bring an additional person to the table for food alone.