darn

Example Sentences

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Pretty darn well, according to those who’ve observed the system up close.

From Los Angeles Times

Brendan said he had met several men who remembered working there when they were boys, with one specifically remembering an old man sitting by a fire darning sacks which they carried corn and flour in.

From BBC

And I was darning so many holey socks at the boardinghouse, my nose had grown numb from the particularly brutal odor of sweaty, dusty feet.

From Literature

“By doing their due diligence and building those relationships,” Darrick Norton, Crockett’s head coach, said, “they found a pretty darn good athlete.”

From The Wall Street Journal

I just knew that I would go to Tokyo and do my darn best to play the scenes, and whatever it was that this guy did is what you get.

From Los Angeles Times