How to Use give a damn in a Sentence

give a damn

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  • Doesn’t give a damn about his body.
    Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Y’all not going to pick us this year, still don’t give a damn.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Hip-hop is our culture, our love, and most of us don’t give a damn who likes it or not.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The rest of the team should be made up of people who don’t give a damn how it’s been done in the past.
    Bill Brady, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • The adult mice didn’t seem to give a damn about the composition of their bed.
    WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Businessmen couldn’t give a damn who was in power.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2026
  • These extremists don’t give a damn about public safety.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The team’s inability to play defense — and not give a damn — drove Malone bonkers.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Lindsay Lohan is too glam to give a damn in her latest Instagram post!
    Amethyst Tate, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Find some civility, reel in your Me-ism, give a damn about people other than yourselves.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2022
  • In reality, says Bukovsky, the West doesn’t give a damn about Russia.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Netflix doesn’t give a damn about anybody, only about the efficacy of its algorithm and, of course, its bottom line.
    Vulture, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Nobody’s going to give a damn about November of 2018 when the new season starts.
    Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Some of us are still too young and beautiful to remember, or even give a damn, frankly, about the Big Blue from yesteryear.
    Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The Valley is talent-rich, but nobody seems to give a damn about Sun Devils football anymore.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Others were simply holding on in the current systems, struggling to hold on to their land and their connection to it, in a system that doesn’t give a damn for them.
    James Rebanks, Time, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Rockstar and Take2 don't give a damn about gamers and their expectations as long as the money keeps flowing into their pockets.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The whole universe sees it as an offering crafted with love, elevated by care and imagination, but Clyde doesn’t give a damn.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
  • This is a life-or-death emergency that divides responsible gun owners and responsive lawmakers from people who just don’t seem to give a damn.
    Van Jones, CNN, 7 June 2022
  • One major difference between this professional basketball job fair and an equivalent event for lawyers is that normal people don’t give a damn about David Boies’s children.
    Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Presidents also became increasingly aware that claims of executive privilege could delay congressional and judicial inquiries past the time where anybody would give a damn.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2021
  • All at once, David was offered a publishing contract, an artist recording contract and a management contract, all transferring pieces of himself to this guy who didn’t really know him or give a damn about him personally.
    Michael Kosser, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Like the Robocop remake, Expendables 3 was cut down to a PG-13 in pursuit of young audiences who didn’t give a damn about these old-school action stars or old-school franchises.
    Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Its most melancholy scene of all involves Willy Loman, a traveling salesman who has given his unnamed company the best years of his now weary life, walking into the head office only to be humiliated by the callow young man who now runs his company and could not give a damn about him.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026

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