How to Use darn near in a Sentence

darn near

phrase

• Old dude has moved around and darn near memorized those footsteps.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Oct. 2022
• Coby Bryant punch the ball out once and darn near rake the ball out another time.
  — Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2021
• If not for Bolden’s 14 points, the Bulldogs were darn near shut out in the first half.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Nov. 2021
• Well, workouts that seemed easy a week before will suddenly seem darn near impossible.
  — Outside Online, 20 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The third quarter may have been darn near unwatchable, but this was a professional win for Denver.
  — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
• Be forewarned—finding a bottle is darn near a mission impossible.
  — Dan Dunn, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2020
• Your baseball-watching life, four games in, is darn near a 10 — even with a Blake Snell-sized asterisk.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
• But then coach Rick Carlisle called a timeout, and after that the Pacers were darn near perfect the rest of the quarter.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Dec. 2022
• It’s all presented as extremely enriching and positive, so much so that even the virtual strip club is darn near sweet.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2022
• But Westbrook avoided that outcome by doing darn near everything else a player could be expected to do on the court.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Until the night the Ravens' 2019 season was stopped cold, their offense was darn near unstoppable.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• Now that our antibodies gave us darn near bullet-proof resistance to the virus, Joanne called our friends, Roger and Janey.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 May 2021
• Cam Newton was darn near flawless as New England ran up a 13-0 lead after the first quarter.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• Her office features books and binders across the shelves filled with notes from two decades of coaching, scribblings that include darn near every bit of information, lessons all those years have taught.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
• Study participants scored significantly better than chance — and sometimes darn near perfect — for all nine species sampled.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2017
• Quarterback Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi is a grizzled veteran now, a junior who’s seen darn near everything twice over.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
• Sunday was darn near as ugly as the Halloween Night debacle here last season, when the Bengals lost, 32-13.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2023
• For decades, if not darn near a century, the NFL has warned of the evils of gambling and casinos, while winking and nodding, knowing the lifeblood of the sport was gambling and casinos.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021
• Compared to sports analysts and political pundits, meteorologists are darn near clairvoyant in their ability to use science and skill to nail the forecast time and time again.
  — Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• The popular television game-show host who shared many evenings in the living rooms of Americans was darn near a familiar family member to millions, which made his death last weekend from pancreatic cancer at age 80 all the more poignant and sad.
  — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 14 Nov. 2020