Example sentences for: golly

How can you use “golly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • No, by golly, here was a 4,500-year-old leopard-print dress, worthy of being worn for eternity in the Realm of the Dead.

  • --Good Golly

  • Golly, said Starr, he hadn't thought it was necessary to say so.

  • Then up popped a descendant of Edmund Halley, the man who discovered the comet; he said the family pronounces its name to rhyme with holly, brolly (as in umbrella), Good Golly, Miss Molly . I consulted a dictionary (about 40 years too late), and it sided with the TV announcers.

  • The Dutch, most notably, have adopted an English expletive too coarse to reproduce here (though if I say, “hits the fan” I expect you'll be with me), but they use it as a mild and largely meaningless epithet, roughly equivalent to our gosh or golly or even just hmmmm --to such an extent, I am told that they must now take special care not to startle English-speaking visitors.


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