Adjective or adverb
yet another doggone problem in the phone lines
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Verb
Patients may reduce calorie consumption by up to 30 percent, largely because food stops being so doggone important.—Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023 You're doggone cute.—Ni'kesia Pannell, Woman's Day, 3 Jan. 2023
Adjective or adverb
Wiggins emerged, and a pretty doggone good pitching staff.—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024 Season 2 of the doggone funny Australian comedy Colin From Accounts will arrive Stateside this fall.—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 7 Aug. 2024
Noun
Don’t look at me and start believing ‘anybody can make it.’ That’s a doggone lie.—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018 See all Example Sentences for doggone
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