How To Use Riddance In A Sentence

  • For any military personnel who resign or choose not to re-enlist because they refuse to serve alongside gay people, I say good riddance. The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel
  • Most British people will say good riddance to radical rubbish. The Sun
  • Well, that's what I call a jolly good riddance of bad rubbish, My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life
  • In this respect she differs from Portia of The Merchant of Venice, who says of the black Prince of Morocco, after he has failed to guess the correct casket, ‘A gentle riddance.’
  • If this is the urban past we have lost, good riddance to it. Times, Sunday Times
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  • Goodbye and good riddance. The Sun
  • After that stiff and awkward “I used to live in this building” speech, I have to say, “Good riddance, Jo.” 'Melrose Place' recap: Riley goes topless, Jonah lives 'the dream' | EW.com
  • And the rest of us will say good riddance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Good riddance to treacherous rubbish. The Sun
  • August 1st, 2006 at 4: 20 pm mylanta says: those ingrateful refugees are leaving because they hate our freedom and our way of life! good riddance! Think Progress » 20,000 Iraqis displaced in 10 days.
  • Benji is now toast in his re-election bid and good riddance. Nelson launches TV ad defending vote
  • That went out the window with Olduvai Gorge, and good riddance. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail
  • My dad said: 'Good riddance. Times, Sunday Times
  • The officer broke out with enthusiasm at the idea of a riddance from the French alliance, and said that every man of the troops in question felt the same. On War — Volume 1
  • There is also a myth about the riddance of tapeworms concerning the other end of the body.
  • When riddance by bullet emerges as the most expeditious way to dispose of her husband's victims, she is eventually even prodded into becoming Clint's executioner.
  • One entry that appealed to us was 'good riddance '. The Times Literary Supplement
  • I have nothing to add except good f***ing riddance, and I hope he's laicized aka defrocked. Priest gets max. 7 yrs for possessing child porn
  • I never liked the expression stiff-necked, but yes, as I conceded to Chloë’s mother in the course of what I now realize had been planned as a goodbye and good-riddance tea, we were an implacable people. Kalooki Nights
  • She said: 'Good riddance to that funny little man. The Sun
  • With us, they bid good riddance to what unleashes destruction in the world. Christianity Today
  • Some in London will say good riddance. Times, Sunday Times
  • She had redone, misfiled, mis-stated, and simply gone off into a daze so many times that day that when the day mercifully ended, several of her co-workers bade her good-riddance.
  • And a small note to those here and in other boards jumping in with such degrading, nasty comments like “Good riddance” or “Thank god that horribleness is over”: Is it too much to ask for a little sensitivity, even a little grace? 'Dollhouse' canceled: Are we peeved or pleased by this development? | EW.com
  • In his 1926 book, Crooke included Hutton's tale as an example of disease riddance by passing a sealed container of contagion; he omitted the Naga storyteller's passing reference to the gift of clothing.
  • So let's all raise a glass and cry 'good riddance! The Sun
  • So it's not so much goodbye and good riddance. The Sun
  • As his stepmother had not even taken leave of him, but had entrusted his departure to the relative with whom he had been lately living, it was considered as an act of "riddance," and accepted as such by her party, and even vaguely acquiesced in by the boy himself. A Waif of the Plains
  • This connection was expressed in their religious behaviour, in the pattern of closely related families fighting over territory, and in their disease riddance customs.
  • Is it a case of goodbye or good riddance? Times, Sunday Times
  • And good riddance, otherwise it means the death of the scrum. Times, Sunday Times
  • And good riddance and bad cess to him, he said.
  • We've got rid of the old computer system, and good riddance to bad rubbish is what I say.
  • By the way it's spelled "riddance" not "riddens" as for Michele, you're correct, now that they've awoken, about all you'll have left up there is an occasional "bear siting". frustrated wrote on Sep 11, 2009 11: 57 PM: News from www.rep-am.com
  • The almost universally held view was " good riddance '. THE GUARDSMEN
  • That went out the window with Olduvai Gorge, and good riddance. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail
  • This is not an unloved character heading off into the darkness to a chorus of 'good riddance '. Times, Sunday Times
  • Angus: For any military personnel who resign or choose not to re-enlist because they refuse to serve alongside gay people, I say good riddance. The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel
  • But the quintal, or hundredweight, of this old ironware is there valued but at the price of a cantle of bread, and yet they have but a very bad despatch and riddance in the sale of it. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Indeed, some would say good riddance, as the cosiness could at times cloud free reporting. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now a time has come when the country, in order to seek the final riddance from terrorism, will have to throw aside its mutual differences and hostilities and rise as a single united force.
  • I say good riddance, it serves him right. The Sun
  • Good riddance to the lot of them. The Sun
  • Goodbye and good riddance to the worst signing in Premier League history. Times, Sunday Times
  • And good riddance, you might say. Times, Sunday Times
  • The almost universally held view was "good riddance '. THE GUARDSMEN
  • Even if you bid me good riddance and send me packing; if you wish I was dead as a doornail; if you think I am an eyesore, a laughing stock, the devil incarnate, a stony-hearted villain, bloody-minded, or a blinking idiot, Then -- by jove! Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Strange WordFellows -- Sarah Palin & William Shakespeare
  • One cataphract from the clan of Lynx slipped away with his armiger, horseboy, and jack, and when he was caught the king made no more speeches of good riddance. Wildfire
  • Can I point out that "riddance" is also misspelled? Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
  • Moksha in the theory of reincarnation means the riddance from repeated births in this world and living in a state of Bliss with God.
  • Good riddance to the old-guard; good luck to the new leadership in replacing Ms. Farnum with someone who will make decisions in children's best interests! East Aurora School District 131 Board Transformation Continues with Carol Farnum's Resignation
  • As far as environmentalists are concerned, Suarez's departure is a welcome riddance.
  • I say good riddance to him. The Sun

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