Sentence examples for thankfully gone from inspiring English sources

But the corpses, which had lain rotting for days, are now thankfully gone.

"There was an adult entertainment store on the corner — one of those open 24 hours a day with the blinking lights — which is thankfully gone now".

Although it is too early to tell how much of that improvement will stick, the days when mining claimed hundreds of Chilean lives each year are thankfully gone.

According to J Ryan Stradal, those days are, thankfully, gone, and I could now repeat my journey, spoon in hand, and find plenty of adventuresome and delicious cuisine.

The days of John Barnes — a marvelously gifted Jamaican who had bananas thrown at him and endured monkey chants as he played for Liverpool and for the England national team in the mid-1980s and 1990s — are thankfully gone.

We love: Skin tight Bodycon bandage dresses have thankfully gone the way of the D-listers who wore them, but the principle behind the WAG favourite has been put to good use in MiH's new skinny jeans.

Protective equipment – helmets in particular – have necessarily advanced in the past few decades and been adopted with such relish by batsmen that the stigma of wearing them thankfully went the way of the eight-ball over.

Meanwhile, that great leftist Israeli philosopher Uri Avnery – 90 years old and still, thankfully, going strong – has picked up on his country's latest obsession: the danger that Isis will storm west from its Iraqi/Syrian "caliphate" and arrive on the east bank of the Jordan river.

Initially losing the case in the UK, where the court ruled that publishers were entitled to collect such fees, the dispute (thankfully) went all the way to the European Courts of Justice on appeal, where it was determined that viewing and linking to content legally on the internet is not, in fact, copyright infringement.

The misguided legislation thankfully went nowhere.

Thankfully, going to university makes us wise up a bit, discover our own personality and throw off the pack mentality that both helps us through the adolescent years and inspires us to be pointlessly cruel to Year 11 English teachers.