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Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.51 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To be an effective example that demonstrates a point; to prove.
Example Sentences
- "[A]ll the evidence that we have goes to show that he spoke the truth."
- "Let a sixteen-year-old girl giggle in the choir and Aunty would say, “It just goes to show you, all the Penfield women are flighty.” Everybody in Maycomb, it seemed, had a Streak: a Drinking Streak, a Gambling Streak, a Mean Streak, a Funny Streak."
- "Well, it just goes to show things are not what they seem / Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmare into dreams"
- "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, who were at the Palladium Friday night, don't fit comfortably into any of the stylistic niches invented by rock writers. […] All of which goes to show that the current rock scene remains chaotic."
- "“The numbers just go to show — once again — that pundits and presumed communal representatives are flat-out wrong in assuming American Jews are hawkish on Iran.”"
- "Do you let her know? I could just let it go You can't hold your breath forever, just goes to show Being dry from the rain is no help with a fire in the home And back we always go, into a nightmare […] Just goes to show And back we always go"