Word Finder - sake

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Cause, interest or account

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For the sake of argument

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Purpose or end; reason

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For old times' sake

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The benefit or regard of someone or something

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(obsolete except in phrases) contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge

I need your help for the sake of humanity.

For my sake, come in.

The mind is not for the sake of knowledge, but knowledge for the sake of the mind.

And I'm pleased for Howie's sake.

She's only four months old, for God's sake!

For heaven's sake don't ask me anything now!

He was trying to keep the situation under control – for her sake.

Get me something to eat, for God's sake!

Please... for God's sake...! said he.

I mean, he's a twenty eight year old man, for heavens' sake.

Was the deceit worth it for their sake?

They were like Barbie and Ken, for cripe's sake.

I HAVE TRIED FROM THE BEGINNING TO TALK NATURALLY TO HELEN AND TO TEACH HER TO TELL ME ONLY THINGS THAT INTEREST HER AND ASK QUESTIONS ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF FINDING OUT WHAT SHE WANTS TO KNOW.

Even to Natasha herself it was pleasant to see that so many sacrifices were being made for her sake, and to know that she had to take medicine at certain hours, though she declared that no medicine would cure her and that it was all nonsense.

Tell me, for God's sake, what will Russia, our mother Russia, say to our being so frightened, and why are we abandoning our good and gallant Fatherland to such rabble and implanting feelings of hatred and shame in all our subjects?

I mean, we're siccing the police after someone Howie saw in... a vision, for God's sake!

That's not something I can ask my mother, for god's sake!

By mutual agreement with both Daniel Brennan and Merrill Cooms, our conversations are reduced to an occasional call, for security sake.

Someone broke into her place for god's sake!

Let's try and make the best of what we have, for Howie's sake.

I know how you don't want to do this but put your feelings aside, for Betsy's and Molly's sake.

You're a doctor for god's sake!

For her sake, Katie tried not to look as pissed as she felt and trotted down the stairs to meet her sister.

Janet O'Brien had just told me my wife's mother had a heart attack, for God's sake!

There's stuff I know...I don't want to be a squealer, but they got a contract on me, for God's sake!

Let's do it right here on the desk—for old time's sake.

She should take more interest in it – if only for his sake.

In her son's lifetime she had, for his sake, condoned the mesalliance, but it was impossible for the stately chatelaine and her low-born daughterin-law to live in peace under the same roof.

Circles of these radii are usually marked around the jack for convenience' sake.

Of these the Dora (called for distinctions sake Dora Riparia), which unites with the greater river just below Turin, has its source in the Mont Genèvre, and flows past Susa at the foot of the Mont Cenis.

From all centres the leading motives of exploration were probably the same - commercial intercourse, warlike operations, whether resulting in conquest or in flight, religious zeal expressed in pilgrimages or missionary journeys, or, from the other side, the avoidance of persecution, and, more particularly in later years, the advancement of knowledge for its own sake.

There had already been other schisms on such questions as the right way to swing a censer and the legality of self-immolation for the Lord's sake.

His defeat left the resources of his kingdom exhausted and its extent diminished; and so the Jews became important to his successors for the sake of their wealth and their position on the frontier.

The evil was wrought, not by the regular armies of the cross who were inspired by noble ideals, but by the undisciplined mobs which, for the sake of plunder, associated themselves with the genuine enthusiasts.

Love grows with the knowledge of its object, he proceeds, and at the highest stage self-love is so merged in love to God that we love ourselves only for God's sake or because God has loved us.

From the lust of conquest for its own sake David appears to have been wholly free.

At the same time a class of men arose interested in these forms for their own sake, professional lawyers Bence, but also "poisons, nay destroys, the divinest feeling in man, the sense of truth," and the belief in sacraments such as the Lord's Supper, a piece of religious materialism of which "the necessary consequences are superstition and immorality."

Yet it would be treason to the majesty of man's incessant struggle towards an ideal good, if one were to deny that in and through the Crusades men strove for righteousness' sake to extend the kingdom of God upon earth.

Siegfried's whole character and career is, indeed, annihilated in the clumsy progress towards this consummation; but Shakespeare might have condoned worse plots for the sake of so noble a result; and indeed Wagner's awkwardness arises mainly from fear of committing oversights.

Every decision made by three of these "deputations" - and in each of them the lower clergy formed the majority - was ratified for the sake of form in general congregation, and if necessary led to decrees promulgated in session.

Tobacco and vegetables are also produced in some quantity, and maize is grown largely for the sake of the husk, which is used for native cheroot-wrappers, under the name of yawpet.

The reports of the earlier wise men, men of practical sagacity in political and social affairs, have come to us from unfriendly sources; it is quite possible that among them were some who took interest in life for its own sake, and reflected on its human moral basis.

For goodness sake, what sort of a being are you?

He's your brother, for God's sake.

She saw the glow of his eagerness and tried to be more upbeat than she felt, for his sake.

It is thought better here, for the sake of clearness, to reserve observations on revenues specially assigned to the international administration of the Ottoman Public Debt, and on the expenditure of that administration, and to deal with that subject separately, while, however, including the total figures of both in the general figures in order to reproduce exactly the totals shown in the budget of the empire.

This distinguished mastery of style, and love of it for its own sake within the bounds of good sense and literary decorum, gave him a pre-eminence among the story-tellers of his time.

While determining its atomic weight, he thought it desirable, for the sake of accuracy, to weigh it in a vacuum, and even in these circumstances he found that the balance behaved in an anomalous manner, the metal appearing to be heavier when cold than when hot.

In Nevada and Colorado the ore is worked chiefly for the sake of the silver.

To get drunk for the sake of the drink was the mark of a beast; but wine was a powerful stimulant to the brain, and to fuddle oneself in order to think great thoughts was worthy of a sage.