sake

Example Sentences

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For simplicity’s sake, I typically use the example of receiving $1,000 a month at full retirement age.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026

Not power for power's sake but to change Britain for the better.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

First released in 2025, the song rails against how, over the past handful of years, people have fought for the sake of fighting, with no end in sight.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026

Number theory—the study of patterns in numbers—had long had an aura of abstract impracticability: math for math’s sake.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

There’s no way he can look at her right now, so he grabs his road map for the sake of somewhere to put his eyes just in case.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone