How to Use godforsaken in a Sentence

godforsaken

adjective
  • Who would want to visit such a godforsaken place?
  • The father of three adult children lives in El Sobrante and sets his alarm for the godforsaken time of 2:50 a.m. each morning.
    Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Just please, for the love all that is good and righteous on this godforsaken planet, do not eat your burger patty with a fork and knife.
    Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Just please, for the love all that is good and righteous on this godforsaken planet, do not eat your burger patty with a fork and knife.
    Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 4 Aug. 2017
  • She's seen at last, but in a godforsaken way, an object of ridicule, forever on the internet.
    Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 18 Aug. 2020
  • For whatever godforsaken reason, Trump believes this is his sandbox and the rest of us are just playing in it.
    Jack Holmes, Esquire, 11 Oct. 2016
  • The setting is some godforsaken part of rural England in the mid-19th century.
    Charles Taylor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 July 2017
  • But even simple mercies prove elusive in these godforsaken parts.
    Justin Chang, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
  • The time is the late 18th century, and the place is some godforsaken colonial backwater in South America, where the scowling magistrate of the title, an officer of the Spanish crown, awaits a transfer that may never come.
    WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The fact of the matter is, however, that Congressional Republicans will have to be a part of any realistic solution to this godforsaken mess.
    Jack Holmes, Esquire, 18 May 2017

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