How to Use darn in a Sentence

darn

1 of 2 verb

• More holes had been worn through the holes that had been darned.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
• On top of that, AI seems to be darned smart.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
• If only that darned Joseph Stalin hadn’t come along.
  — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
• Others proclaim that we should be darned happy that AI seems to work.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• Election be darned, no problem there — most voters have already made up their minds anyway.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 6 July 2024
• That’s when nearly everyone watching in person and on TV inched from the edge of seats to darn near off them.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2022
• There’s a resigned understanding that this love might be doomed but, darn it, Meat Loaf’s in for it anyway.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
• The Triumph was, and still is, honest, authentic, and darned-near bulletproof.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 29 Aug. 2025
• The man would summon his elderly former nanny every time Teddy needed to be darned or re-stitched.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• The Phillies only lost 26 games in Philadelphia the whole darned season.
  — Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
• In most of the middle and eastern parts of North America, the local woods get pretty darned dry at some point during the summer.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
• The social communities will make that connection really darn fast.
  — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• By now, there’s little to no reason to not think of this squad as the WNBA’s best, name recognition be darned.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2024
• With the help of her friend Rachel Smith, Bennett learned how to darn, a mending technique that involves filling in holes in knits and wovens.
  — Emma Banks, refinery29.com, 24 May 2022
• Fads and fashion be darned; the principles that dictate the propagation of sound waves have existed since the beginning of creation.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2025
• Each one has been accompanied by proclamations that making machines truly intelligent is just too darned hard for humans to figure out.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
• Cheekiness or historical aspects be darned.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
• These days, there’s still some small virtue in darning a sock or reupholstering a chair, although fewer modern Americans take the time to do so or would call it efficient.
  — Coco Krumme, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
• That pesky 75% voting threshold and 10-year eligibility limit made the writers’ job too hard, darn it.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• That would be a ripe spot to declare that the AI isn’t of professional quality and make darned sure to remove any wording that suggests otherwise.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• Fifty-six years later, the company is still carrying on that mission and delivering some pretty darned exhilarating performances in the process.
  — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025
• Despite its flaws, unpopularity and uncertain prospects, the US economy is pretty darned strong and growing fast.
  — David Goldman, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026
• However, dermatologists agree that no skincare regime is complete without sun protection, so SPF gets a spot on this list, technicalities be darned.
  — Jenny Berg, Allure, 24 Jan. 2025
• By Jennifer Barger Special to The Washington Post One dusty family photo album in my attic holds black-and-white snapshots of my mother and grandmother darning their socks in the early 1950s.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2026
• Much is made of the iconography of the character of Mary Poppins — one of cinema's most famous, hyperbole be darned — but perhaps not enough is owed to how Julie Andrews, on the cusp of 30, simultaneously brought green charisma and decades of wisdom to the magical, practical nanny.
  — Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026

darn

2 of 2 adjective or adverb

• So, yeah, this is a darn good deal.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
• Just get the darn curler and invoke Hathor!
  — Fiona Landers, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
• Kristal was the great love of his life (and a darn good con woman).
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
• The Buffs just struggled to step up and take the darn thing.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 29 Nov. 2025
• In fairness, the guy did have a darn good season.
  — Sports Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2026
• Levi’s is a pretty darn close match to Holmes’ wide-leg jeans.
  — Madeline Merinuk, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
• Step away from all the darn noise and consider the film as a piece of art.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2025
• And then, four days later, John Daly won the whole darn thing.
  — Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 16 May 2025
• And most importantly, there can’t be a darn lump in sight.
  — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2025
• Ranch water doesn't seem to be a thing outside of Texas, which is a darn shame.
  — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 23 July 2021
• Well, so much for that, though Indy does look like a pretty darn salty group.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2025
• Those darn things don’t offer a texting option.
  — Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 6 Apr. 2026
• Those darn kids use it for just about everything, even searching for stuff online.
  — WIRED, 28 Jan. 2023
• Stop fighting with your husband, become proactive and get the darn door fixed.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2024
• The Titans lost 37-24 to a darn good 49ers team.
  — Nick Suss, Nashville Tennessean, 15 Dec. 2025
• Helles Real won this whole darn thing in 2023, so that 2 seed is well-earned.
  — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2026
• All of this can be so darn head-spinning — and overcomplicated.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• Watching, Heining cries every darn time.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 31 Dec. 2025
• Free food Friday means doughnuts and there is a darn carnival in the parking lot!
  — Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2014
• The darn snow is finally gone and there shouldn’t be any more frosts until October.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
• The reality is that no one has a darn clue when the most harmful trends of climate change will be unstoppable.
  — Aron Ravin, National Review, 17 Aug. 2021
• Hyenas that tried more techniques to get the box open (biting, dragging, flipping the darn thing over) had greater odds of success.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2013
• But that’s okay because a Hield shooting regression is still pretty darn elite when compared to the rest of the league.
  — Mat Issa, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
• Most of all, Gates proclaimed time and time again just how darn special Huntington Beach is.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
• But there is also that darn factor of bias that so doggedly appears to have compounded Kariko’s struggles.
  — Lynn Dewoskin Covarrubias, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023
• It's got some storytelling issues but, man, Idris Elba makes a darn good president.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
• Yet there's also some darn fine journalism in writer/director James Gunn's film.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2025
• Long story short, a teenaged Bolles was on a grueling mountain hike with his troop, and his elders challenged him to finish the darn thing.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2026
• The darn thing was set to Eco mode, which attenuates your most immature wants with gas-saving reluctance.
  — Neil Dunlop, Car and Driver, 21 June 2021
• The team with the second-highest payroll in baseball, and sitting last in the AL East, didn’t do a darn thing.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023