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Example sentences for: sakes

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

But he is quoted as saying, For God's sakes.
So, yes, for our own sakes we should all buy and hold.
But the one that actually ended the movie was good too, when Clooney finally proposes to Michelle Pfeiffer right in Bloomingdale's for gosh sakes, and all the other shoppers applaud and applaud--it seems to go on forever--announcing the cynicism and greed and callousness that underlie Christmas shopping or marriage or movies or something.
Thus we hear for heaven's sakes , and for goodness' sakes .
for all our sakes.