How To Use Darned In A Sentence
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Crystal: Sheriff - Survived albeit with a half a gol'darned dozen er so Swiss cheese holes in her "dainties"...
GAMING NEWS: Shoot Out At The A-1 Corral (19 April 2006)!
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The second-half Cubs will be much better than the first-half Cubs, and the first-half Cubs have been darned good themselves.
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Now Mrs Crocket had certainly 'dratted' and 'darned' the boy, who wouldn't come as fast as she had wished, and had laughed at Mrs
He Knew He Was Right
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I was darnedly self-conscious in my daring clothes.
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We can identify with Marjatta's chagrin at his insensitivity, but, hey, he didn't invent it, and he's trying, and it's sad that Marjatta can never love him as she loved Emil, even though Isak tries his darnedest.
Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
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Nolte has long been top of the casting list for grizzled grumps, but the simple reason for that is he's so darned good at it.
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
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Well, isn't that the darnedest thing?
Times, Sunday Times
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Ironically, the luxury SUV looks pretty darned good when viewed that closely, but when I pull back for the macro view I find some annoying flaws and noteworthy virtues.
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While neither of these fish and jellies - and there are far too many to name here - are monsters in size, there is something called abyssal gigantism, the tendency for other forms of extremely deep-dwelling organisms to not only be odd, strange, bizarre and darned creepy but also - yes, you guessed it - HUGE. via)
Dark Roasted Blend
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We did give them coffee once Gladys had it made, but I was darned if I'd let them pester me with a lot of fool questions.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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The Republicans were quick to try and get Bill Clinton impeached for infidelity - now they're trying their darnedest to keep their own adulterous politicians in office and downplay it!
Steele: Sanford, Ensign affairs 'old news, old school'
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The screen was woollen, an open weave to let the sound through from behind, with darned patches, brighter than the yellowed screen.
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Hardly any clothes were inside, except for two darned white shirts, one pair of brown pants, and two finely tailored suits, one gray, the other brown.
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The Prophet darned his own garments and among his wives and concubines had a trader, a warrior, a leatherworker and an imam.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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The included applications might not work completely, but they work pretty darned well overall, and provide most of the functionality that my clients need, right out of the box.
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You can grow tobacco, and you may be able to grow a moustache, but I'll be darned if you can ‘grow’ the economy.
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Another apparently had the word "captivate" confused with something else, but darned if I can figure out what: "Furthermore, many families found that having [a popular fictional television family] captivated as a cartoon was inappropriate because it wold target the viewers of children.
CHE > Latest news
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You're darned right I'm going to look at the market.
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It's kind of darned if you do and darned if you don't, though.
CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2008
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Turn the thing on and a quietly whirring motor oscillates the variously shaped heads at a breakneck speed of 3,600 RPM, which feels pretty darned good.
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In my experience most video rental places try their darnedest to get you to watch tripe like Paul Blart, Mall Cop.
Matthew Yglesias » Netflix Maps
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One was a new structure and the other two were old barns which had been "darned" here and there with new material, and their yawed sides were propped with joists.
The Landloper
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I'm a semi-disabled 58 yr old granny with little or no transportation but whenever it is decided on date & place for OUR rally, I will do my darnedest to be there!" wrote a woman name Marilyn McCarty on the Facebook page for a Birmingham, Ala., occupation, which does not yet have a set date or time.
Wall Street Protest Digs In, Spreads
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He wore a serviceable but plain jerkin over a woolen shirt that was warm and comfortable but darned in two places, and his boots could have used a shinier coat of polish.
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I'm looking forward to brats and diet Coke and some darned good baseball.
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I'd be darned if I was about to do his washing as well!
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Also, Jayson Stark wrote the foreword, which is pretty darned cool.
Air Supply or Suicide?
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Unfortunately, there is no moondust or magic wand; it is just darned hard work.
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I should note that Raquel is pretty darned excited about having a fellow Puertorriqueña on the Supreme Court, as was just announced (as a nominee, I should note ....)
Makeover
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Ski-jumping officials did their darnedest to keep him out of the competition — for his own safety.
'Harry Potter' star Rupert Grint as Eddie the Eagle: Method acting at its most daring | EW.com
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I swear under my breath and kick that darned girl under the table.
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Record headsets use super-slick bearings, actually hold their adjustment, and are made of stuff so fine they just last and last - not quite forever, but darned close to it.
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Perhaps, after all, a general election is only the sublimation of a darned good riot.
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Shabbily forlorn were that man's habiliments -- turned and re-turned, patched, darned, weather - stained, grease-stained -- but still retaining that kind of mouldy, grandiose, bastard gentility, which implies that the wearer has known better days; and, in the downward progress of fortunes when they once fall, may probably know still worse.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10
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I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing
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Andrew Spear for The Wall Street Journal 'For crying out loud, we're doing our darnedest,' says Mr. Fairchild.
Ohio to Supplier: It's Payback Time
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She hadn't had a pair of kidskin gloves in ages; she'd had to make do with knit woolen gloves that had been darned and redarned so many times there wasn't much left of the original material on the fingers.
Red dust
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In fact, a lot of them seemed quick to form other ideas about what a lovely red-haired woman in silver might be interested in doing at night, and some were darned eager to cooperate.
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And not the kind of freak show where everybody's trying to be a freak, but the kind where people really are really freaky and are usually trying their darnedest to seem normal, and when you meet them you might think for about five seconds that they're actually normal, but then they inadvertently let there freak flag fly, and you suddenly realize, "Wow, this person is a freakin 'freak!
Wesson Oil
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Apparently newspaper book review sections are suffering not because the reviews they publish increasingly go unread, or because the newspapers that sponsor them are being irresponsible in abandoning literary/cultural coverage that doesn't fill the financial coffers amply enough, but because of bloggers and their incessant scribbling, their blogs with funny names, and their goldarned "shallow grandstanding and overblown ranting," their "childish free-for-alls.
Book Reviewing
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These can be slipped into your luggage quite innocently on the pretext that they're darned useful for keeping camera film dry on canoeing expeditions.
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Martin could not help frowning for a moment, as if he were disposed to insinuate that the gentleman had unconsciously 'darned' himself.
Martin Chuzzlewit
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We often hear francophones singing for their supper in English, at least here in Quebec, but rarely do we get anglophone singers from Ontario trying their darnedest to sing in French.
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There I am, sitting, munching away on a pretty darned good bagel with lashings of cream cheese and folded smoked salmon and somebody says ‘I guess you like bagels cause you're French?’
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I missed the darned bus by seconds and so have decided to walk.
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Most of them are darned good and fascinating, but we should all also be prepared to plunge in and get a little red in tooth and claw when weakling articles like that one make it into our range.
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Aunt Emilie darned old socks.
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It was a darned good movie.
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The wife assisted him in the details of business, darned his hose, drudged at the wash-tub, took care of other people's children for hire, and generously gave him whatever money she earned and could spare beyond her actual expenses.
Jack London's Parentage
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Going to Mars is too darned expensive, they say, and we should save our money.
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It's just so darned much fun to hear these old duffers talking shop and gossip.
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It's what you'd call a darned good offer," explained Armstrong:
The Dominant Dollar
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`I just say I think it's mighty darned strange, him keeling over all of a sudden, just like that spy.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Remember when I darned "My So-Called Life" and put it on my 'darned' list.
Archive 2007-10-01
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Darning with flosses upon both white and black bobbinet, or silk net, was a very common form of the art, and veils of white with seed or all-over designs darned in white silk floss, may be called the "personal needlework" of the period, and some of the shawls were superb stretches of design and stitching.
The Development of Embroidery in America
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The post-novella ennui is not as bad as the post-novel ennui, but it's still pretty darned draining.
The plot of our life sweats in the dark like a face
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She tried her darnedest, huffed and puffed her lungs out, but could not activate the gadget, much less register any reading even after several attempts.
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He went on to say he would be "darned" if US Bancorp were to become part of of the "collateral damage" from the government's "sloppy attempt at nationalizing the [banking] industry.
US Bancorp Blasts TARP As Giant Bait And Switch On America - The Consumerist
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And I'll be darned if I'll buy them and then let them rot in the cupboard.
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With his gosh-darned, aw-shucks demeanor and disarming smile, he is able to insult entire ethnic groups without even realizing he's doing it.
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Boy, I wish I hadn't seen this post because I suspect I'm going to now overfocus on that darned cocoa as I move through the book!
Tish! That's French!
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Grace said ... both of my grandmas are so special to me, and i say this is a tremendous event. i'll do my darnedest to contribute my favorite recipe, but i have to decide what it is first!
Announcing A Blog Event: Grandma's Recipes
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Several times during the speech Perry posed for dramatic effect, once even wrapping his arms around himself and remarking in a theatrical aside: "It's the darnedest thing.
CPAC 2011: The Conservative Political Action Conference (Live Coverage, Day Two)
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It's not that it's been hot so much as the very high humidity that's made me feel darned uncomfortable.
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She darned socks each Sunday for the Uncle as it was, receiving them by mail.
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He is dressed in a coarse pepper-and-salt suit excessively patched and darned
American Notes for General Circulation
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And then he would sit close to the lamp on one side the table and read old borrowed magazines for an hour, while I sat on the other side and darned his socks and underclothing.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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She sounds invulnerable, not because she's powerful but because she's so darned nice.
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She sounds invulnerable, not because she's powerful but because she's so darned nice.
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But to get to the end, including all the edits, is more like a darned good marriage: it still has to be nurtured and worked at for the long haul.
How I Know I’m a Writer at SF Novelists
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February 1st, 2010 at 4: 37 pm tombaker says: that darned mosser, so proud of his grubby lil’ fingerbooger. not bad, for a feller who gave up on reality and sincerity so very long ago … if he prays hard, and stays in school and away from drugs, he mught just stand a fighting chance. lucky thing, for kids like him, that there are so many compassionate liberals in the world.
Think Progress » San Francisco Commonwealth Club postpones O’Keefe event.
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My socks have been darned again and again.
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If the ‘huntsmen’ were to tell me that hunting was just darned good fun, I'd pat every man jack of them on the back.
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'E came along' ere only the other day, 'e did, and' e says to me, 'e says,' darned 'f I can see why a station-master should beat a professional gardener at' is own game, '' e says, 'but you do.
Mr. Britling Sees It Through
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I have a wide circle of friends, a wide range of interests, and, apart from the downs everyone has, a pretty darned neat life.
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His new tax is so high that people will do their darnedest not to pay it.
Times, Sunday Times
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I know Ashron Kutcher is a celebrity, because I hear him mentioned all the time, but I'll be darned if I can put the name to the face.
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She noted with tenderness all the makeshifts: the darned chair-arms, the patent rocker covered with sleazy cretonne, the pasted strips of paper mending the birch-bark napkin-rings labeled “Papa” and
Main Street
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You're darned lucky that Andy was in a cooperative mood this morning, husband mine.
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The thing of it is, Lance's bike is expensive, which is what makes the 2300 so darned cool.
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So, on Sunday night, I darned in all the ends, did the picot - edged for the bands and did the i-cord button loops.
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At the same time, the introduction of voice (assuming no effective voice alteration software) closes down a whole range of other performative possibilities, because voice socially "locates" people so powerfully (like those darned Australians).
Mike fright
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On the Facebook page for a nascent Birmingham, Ala., occupation, one "semi-disabled 58 yr old granny with little or no transportation" vowed to "do my darnedest to be there!
This Week: The Death of Steve Jobs; Christie Says No
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I thought he was the handsomest darned guy in the whole world, and he was such fun!
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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And they really do say and do the "darnedest" things.
Marshall Independent
