cripes

Example Sentences

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I was a pallbearer at her sister’s funeral, for cripes sake!

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2021

Comin' in, you said you had your blizzard stuff, and now if the sun'd jest come out, by cripes, you'd be singin' songs uh thanksgivin'—er words to that effect.

From The Phantom Herd by Bower, B. M.

We like you, by cripes, and we like your cookin' fine!

From The Happy Family by Bower, B. M.

By cripes, if I had a regalia like that I'd be riding herd in 'em ev'ry Sunday!

From Judith of Blue Lake Ranch by Gregory, Jackson

Then, after a kind of dazed once-over of the raft, fore-and-aft: “By cripes, the kid is gone!”

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)