Sentence examples for sake to know from inspiring English sources

"Isn't that your job, for Christ's sake — to know what's going on here?

So this little experiment was done for my own sake, to know what sort of animal-based dishes I can look forward to when hamburgers are enjoyed exclusively by the one percent.

"Better than whose, for God sake?" we always want to know.

He decided that sake was worth getting to know, and started to offer it at March as an aperitif.

Arguing for the athletes' sake that "we need to know that in this country, what we work for will be appreciated," Ben puts together a well-attended demonstration that coincides with parents' weekend.

If this ridiculous rumor was true, why, for heaven's sake, was she the last to know about it?

Jansen taught that a desire for knowledge was one form of concupiscence, and he argued that from this "illness … arises the investigation of nature's secrets (which are irrelevant to us), knowledge of which is useless, and which men do not wish to know except for the sake of knowing them" (Jansen 2004: 24).

You don't have to be an evolutionary psychologist to know that for the sake of survival, teachers will inevitably shave their lessons down to the fine points of mandated exams even more than they do already.

And householders might just want to know for their own sake too.

Whilst some delegates would want to know their results "You should find out for the sake of it"; "(if I knew) I wouldn't have the stress of worrying about it", others preferred not to know.

They talked about feeling pressured by patients to know more, as this quote illustrates: I have had some parents, sometimes, questioning me about evidence to the extent to where I say, "I don't know, for God's sake, don't ask me things like that".