gesundheit

Example Sentences

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Why bother still bringing up someone’s nepo-ness whenever their name is mentioned, with both the mic-drop confidence of a gotcha and the rote formality of a gesundheit?

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2024

The Wisconsinite says gesundheit, after all, because that part of the country was once packed with German immigrants.

From Time • Apr. 6, 2015

“Fine. He said wanderlust., so what? If I say gesundheit when someone sneezes, it hardly means I speak German,” Maytag retorted.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood