Sentence examples for thanks just from inspiring English sources

In American English, for example, "thank you" is a prototypical way of giving thanks, just as "I am sorry" is a prototypical way of apologizing.

But their investment bankers, like so many retail clerks, may get a reply of "No thanks, just looking".

Grateful for being brought back, Banks dropped to a knee and bowed his head to give thanks just before his initial camp practice.

If the car had been a person, I'd have said thanks just then: thanks for being reliable even if your engine is, as my eldest son (who once did a car maintenance course) likes to say, "a bit ticky".

Even when, appalled and incredulous, she becomes unwittingly pregnant at the age of 16, she recognizes the importance of knowing for oneself, of choosing for oneself (no, she will have to insist on keeping her child, thanks just the same).

And as I'm writing this, I'm keeping warm in a very nice sweatshirt that was sent to me by a prospective client who didn't even place an order — this client sent us a box of them as thanks just for the work we put into the proposal.

On her last day at Osterville, she wrote that she was lookingforward to returning to Ohio to see their new home: "I am stillgiving thanks-just think I might never have seen the bay window hadthe ball struck half an inch lower.

"I was just, 'Oh thanks, but no I'm not'" she says, beaming at the thought.

The company could have earned not just my thanks, but that of the Culture Secretary, too.

For this the Japanese can give thanks not just to September, but also to setsuden, or "energy saving," an ambitious and strikingly successful campaign to conserve electricity after the March earthquake, tsunami and nuclear-plant disasters.

Every major airline has managed to squeeze more revenue out of its passengers this year, thanks not just to higher fares but also to a growing multitude of fees.