How to Use riddance in a Sentence

riddance

noun

• Good riddance for good, Cash, please let the door hit you on the way out.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Say goodbye to the drought and good riddance to the baggage.
  — The Enquirer, 20 Jan. 2022
• The rosy and righteous among us might say good riddance.
  — Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021
• Leitão sent a message that was loud and clear: Good riddance to bad fans.
  — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 May 2018
• The Texans will say good riddance to 2017 with a winnable game against the even more hapless Colts.
  — Randy Harvey, Houston Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017
• Most Arkansans will join me in saying good riddance to 2020.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2020
• The side mirrors and windscreen-wipers had long gone, good riddance to them.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• Some bid it a fond farewell, while others said good riddance.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 2 July 2022
• This is it, my friends: 2016 has gone in a puff of evil Satanic smoke, and good riddance.
  — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 1 Jan. 2017
• Time for Chicago to say goodbye — and good riddance — to 2020.
  — Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 30 Dec. 2020
• Make no mistake, the age of colonialism is over, and good riddance.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 14 Mar. 2021
• The temptation is to write off 2020 as the worst year ever – goodbye and good riddance.
  — USA Today, 30 Dec. 2020
• What do all the people saying good riddance to Bob Kroll have in common?
  — Richard Greelis, Star Tribune, 20 Jan. 2021
• Others lamented its lack of speed and said good riddance.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
• Wall Street is bidding goodbye – and good riddance – to 2022.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
• Again, if the fans are content with mediocrity, just admit it; The rest of the country will gladly say good riddance.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2022
• The 34-story tower had become an eyesore over the years, so good riddance.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• Good riddance The Chargers played their final game in Carson, Claif.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2019
• After 50 years of farming, Fisch too has left the ostrich business, and says good riddance.
  — National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2020
• But first, good riddance to Tropical Storm Beta, which dumped 15 inches of rain in parts of our fair city over the last three days.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 23 Sep. 2020
• The general sentiment seems to be: Good riddance to this year.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2016
• The White House all but said good riddance to the two senators, pointing out that their voters had left them behind.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 Oct. 2017
• This means saying good riddance to that candy bowl in the family room and the cookie stash in your home office.
  — Amy Gorin, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2017
• Those of us desperate to hang on said, privately, good riddance to the latter camp.
  — Lydia Kiesling, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
• That's what clerk's firing tells state workers ►Good riddance, 2017!
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 6 Jan. 2018
• Annnnnnd good riddance to perhaps the two biggest villains to ever come to Paradise.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• If your support for U of L was because of nothing more than 40 minutes on the basketball court 40 times a year, good riddance.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 28 Sep. 2017
• But today, Miami-Dade schools will say good riddance to a year thrown off track by disaster and tragedy.
  — Colleen Wright, miamiherald, 7 June 2018
• Good riddance to the fake redneck, the cancer-charity grifter, and the amoral Florida Woman.
  — Elizabeth Spiers, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2021
• The son of late actor Willie Garson posted an Instagram tribute to say good riddance to 2021, the year his father died.
  — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 3 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024