(n.) Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.
Example Sentences:
(1) The trend has grown apace since Tarantino's double Bill proved a financial godsend for Miramax, while audience resistance has dwindled to nothing.
(2) In terms of building a database, it's a godsend, and it could safeguard not just the Valley of the Kings, but all of Egypt's heritage sites."
(3) When you are confronted with a mass of material on learning disability, easy-read versions can be a godsend.
(4) For someone who loves art but to whom the art world sounds like babbling in an invented language, this is godsend.
(5) "Whenever the Democratic party nominates a Catholic it is a godsend, because otherwise the abortion issue is secondary," said Father Richard McBrien, a theologian at Notre Dame University.
(6) Going through puberty and having a counter-message to all the crap about women's bodies and sexuality that I was beginning to be aware of was an absolute godsend.
(7) Vladimir Putin’s unexpected ascent to power in 2000 was, for many, a godsend.
(8) Gilmore says e-cigarettes could be seen as "a godsend for the tobacco industry.
(9) Whether you view this as a vindication of basic rights to control our own personal data online, or a worrying trend for the public record online, it is an undoubted godsend to revenge porn victims.
(10) They used the Framingham Heart Study – a longitudinal study of the population of a small Massachusetts town near Boston which was started in 1948 to investigate risk for heart disease but has since become a godsend for social research because of the wealth of information that continues to be collected from generation after generation of residents.
(11) But to the rows of women, cuddling their babies, this place was a godsend.
(12) For people such as Nibal Shkirm, a Syrian teacher from Aleppo, who landed in Lesbos with her four children and husband last week, the groups have been a godsend.
(13) Japanese researchers have shown that augmented reality can trick people into feeling full by making food on the plate appear larger than it is (a godsend to dieters).
(14) The QE injection was a godsend to the eurozone, which has so far – but perhaps not for much longer – scorned the idea of turning on the electronic printing presses.
(15) Cloning shows up in movies as varied as The Boys From Brazil, Sleeper, Multiplicity, Gattaca, Godsend and Twins.
(16) But the SRA was a godsend for Jim Steer and his dreams of speed.
(17) For Edinburgh zoo the pandas are a godsend after the most difficult period in its 102-year history.
(18) Supplementing my weekly food shop, which came in at around £10 a week, with five items handed out from the food bank, was a godsend.
(19) This similarity may prove to be a godsend for astronomers.
(20) In the end, though, her career turned out to be a godsend.
Godspeed
Definition:
(n.) Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you."
Example Sentences:
(1) And in this ineluctable journey, we must wish the "quiet man" godspeed.
(2) And if you’re feeling nostalgic for the weirdness and boobery of 2012 (godspeed Rafalca ), you can enjoy the fact that Scott Walker’s veneration of Ronald Reagan verges on a cultic unease far worse than any evangelical paranoia about Romney’s Mormonism.
(3) There have been high-profile support slots for post-rockers Sigur Rós and Godspeed You!
(4) Godspeed to the heroic Iraqi forces, Kurdish peshmerga, and Ninewa volunteers.
(5) So good luck, and Godspeed.” In contrast to the large number of commutations, Obama has only pardoned 64 prisoners, fewer than all his predecessors since James Garfield’s six-month tenure as president in 1881.
(6) Without revisiting stale debates about the 'big society' and citizen empowerment, and localism versus centralism, I wished godspeed to Thame.