Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sakes
IPA transcription: [s'eɪks]
Usage examples
  • For his sake, for my sake, for all our sakes, dearest Henrietta, grant his wish.
  • Let us both try for each other's sakes, or even if only for Alice's, to--to do all we can.
  • But now I must leave you to rest and sleep. Try, my darling, for all our sakes, to be very prudent, very calm and quiet."
  • We shall stick out all over with knowledge before you come back; and this makes it a plain duty to go, if it were only for our sakes." With these zealous promises, Katy was forced to be content.
  • As soon as he was come, he told them that God would deliver them from their present distress, and had granted them an unexpected favor; and informed them, that a river should run for their sakes out of the rock.
  • For both their sakes he wished to avoid all friction with the miser, at any rate until his status as Anna's husband would enable him to enforce her rights, if that should be necessary, with dignity and effectiveness.