Sentence examples for you gods from inspiring English sources

The phrase "you gods" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is often used in a poetic or rhetorical way to refer to a group of people or a person that is powerful and respected. For example, you could use the sentence, "O, you gods! Ruling with justice and compassion."

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He could whisper a benediction from "The Winter's Tale" as he tucks Sasha or Malia into bed: "You gods look down, / And from your sacred vials pour your graces / Upon my daughter's head".

Jove says that you are to let this by man go at once, for it is decreed that he shall not perish here, far from his own people, but shall return to his house and country and see his friends again". Calypso trembled with rage when she heard this, "You gods," she exclaimed, to be ashamed of yourselves.

A central question for actors and directors is whether to present Timon as authentically noble in his belief that friendship is only true when it is tested by want ("O you gods, think I, what need we have any friends if we should ne'er have need of 'em?"), or as a self-regarding egoist who takes inordinate pleasure in his ability to patronize his friends.

Ha, you gods! why this? what this, you gods?

In olden times, in times of stones and sands, grey-bearded gods and nymph-like goddesses would send us gifts – the gift of music, for example, or the gift of clean clear water, or the gift of fire or bountiful fruit, or the gift of lush fertile lands in which to raise our sheep – and we would say: thank you, gods, thanks to you for these wonderful gifts.

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If you needed gods, you were cheating.

"Where were you God?

thank you, God bless.

Thank you, God bless you.

God damn you!!! God damn you!!! God damn!

I wish you God".

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