thank God

Idioms and Phrases

Also, thank goodness or heaven . I'm grateful, as in Thank God you arrived safely , or We didn't, thank goodness, run out of food , or Thank heaven the book arrived on time . These ejaculations originally expressed gratitude to divine providence but today tend to be used in a more casual way. [c. 1200]

Example Sentences

Thank God it will soon be evacuated and replaced by two new prisons, SCI Phoenix I and II, just next door.

From The Daily Beast

And thank God for it, since the problem is that public opinion was wrong.

From The Daily Beast

“I have an unfortunate temper that flares up not too often, thank God,” Baquet says.

From The Daily Beast

“This is the first time I came back since the shelling, thank God,” says 27-year-old Bassem Adwan.

From The Daily Beast

So thank god for people like your mother who can bring you back down to planet Earth.

From The Daily Beast

And under these conditions we have already, thank God, baptized four of them.

From Project Gutenberg

But, thank God, their ambuscade was turned against themselves.

From Project Gutenberg

Thank God, however, here we are in Switzerland, where everything goes on in its normal course.

From Project Gutenberg

And I thank God, who gave me the temper to feel grief exquisitely, that he at the same time gave me an equal capacity for joy.

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Thank God today would see the end, and they could once more have the hot South Polar crisis with their cereal.

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