Sentence examples for darn from inspiring English sources

'darn' is a perfectly acceptable and usable word in written English.
It is generally used as an alternative to profane words to express annoyance or frustration. For example: "Darn it, I forgot to buy milk from the store!".

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darn

noun

A place mended by darning.

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We are often told that the real problem of privacy is that kids are just sharing too darn much.

It looks pretty gosh darn real to me.

Taylor Swift may have gotten her start in country music, but she made it pretty darn clear in the lead-up to the release of her blockbuster album 1989 that she considers herself a pop artist these days.

In this tucked-away harbour on the south Cornish coast, it's not simply a case of paying the ferryman, but of having a darn good natter with him, too, if you want to make the most of your stay.

But Verbena wins because it's just so darn San Franciscan, with its sprouted seed bread, and duck confit with Chinese broccoli and "rice grits".

It has limitations, of course it focuses only on the impact of a change in the unemployment rate and it bases predicted losses on linear extrapolation but it's darn entertaining all the same.

He had more nose to work with in "Pinocchio" in 1940; but there, typically, he drew just the beginning of the transformation, as the puppet-boy, "who doesn't know a darn thing", was suddenly, astonishingly confronted by the Blue Fairy and his own lies.

GDP growth is positive in every state except Connecticut, pretty darn good in Texas (4.8%) and stellar (13.4%) in oil-rich North Dakota.

Preferably, this should include the option of getting rid of (or at least, fundamentally reforming) the whole darn lot.

For another, I think Barack Obama probably has better things to do than tell us we're good enough, smart enough and darn it etc etc.As columns exhorting the president to therapeutic action go, E.J. Dionne's is not one of the worst, though it does contain a familiar silent crescendo.

Or that the "experts" in non-democratic societies are no darn good either, because only in democracies can experts analyse issues objectively and speak their mind, for what that is worth.

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