Sentence examples for Drat from inspiring English sources

They will die, therefore, not with that familiar "ping!" and "Oh, drat!", but with a quieter dimming, like the dark condensate veiling on glass that is very old.

"Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, drat!" The car kept backing.

"Drat that cat!" resounds through the house — until Suzy decides to remind her humans just how much they really love her.

Readers will also come away with a new vocabulary word: "Drat".

I say drat, egad and pish (or one of those other crosswordy exclamations that have saved me in a tight corner) to blasted rules!

DRAT THAT CAT! Written and illustrated by Tony Ross.

In effect, a slower start followed by a faster build-up later can get you to the same eventual benefit in terms of reduced emissions, but far more cheaply.There they go again, those dratted economists, assuming that a smaller cost is good, missing the point as always.

Everyone from President Obama to GE (which insists it is desperate to close those dratted loopholes, at least if doing so is part of a broader reform) is saying that something must be done.

The dratted devices also make it easier for managers in one time zone to spoil the evenings of managers in another.Employees find it ever harder to distinguish between "on-time" and "off-time"—and indeed between real work and make-work.

There may be the occasional cry of "drats" when it turns out one won't be getting BOGOF on the cheddar cheese because they didn't put their reading glasses on to check the small print, but at least the whole tedious thing happened with complete, undivided attention for the checkout assistant - and the queue forming behind them.

If Priebus really were a sitcom dad, he would be shaking his head and saying, "That dratted Donald!" But, in the real world, there is not much that Priebus can do.