Example Sentences

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“Malibu is a way of life. Most of us are doing our darndest to maintain that way of life,” Ventress said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

The journalist notes that in recent years, unions have been "popping up in the darndest places" and that employees of Amazon, Trader Joe's, Starbucks and Apple have been "organizing or advocating to start unions."

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2022

Musk is trying his darndest to buy Twitter anyway.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2022

It’s still tough to be thrilled with a team that tried their darndest to give away their playoff seed to Montreal last season.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2021

“Oh, sure, it’s the darndest house you ever saw. Painted like Pepto-Bismol. Your grandmother surely’s seen it—you go through town on Main Street till it turns into the highway to Florence.”

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd