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Definition of darn:

  • (noun) a euphemism for `damn'
  • (noun) something of little value;
  • (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment);
  • (verb) repair by sewing; "darn socks"

Sentence Examples:

Jeff said irritably, "Don't be a darn fool!"

I wish I wasn't such a darn skunk!

"Wearing spectacles and darning socks," smiled Hazel.

The darned gunboats battered down the wall.

"Darn my socks," replied the practical Thompson.

Margaret had been divested of this darning propensity.

About the darn outfit, the pelts we got?

Morgan laid down her half-darned sock in anticipation.

And I haven't your last week's socks darned!

"Darn it all," he muttered through clenched teeth.

And darn our socks and mend our shirts?

Then I ran plumb into that darned jaguar.

"And your socks darned and your shirts mended."

Tomorrow I shall darn and sew on buttons.

Your darned hunch is all wrong this time.

"I'll be darned if I do," he replied hotly.

"I'll be darned if it ain't a French frigate!"

"Yes," said Paula, complacently, as she threaded a darning-needle.

Gee, and I saw the darned boat going out!

The darned critters are never either friendly or quiet.

"It was that darned white nag," said Jones.

"Don't make a darn fool of yourself," he said placidly.

The darned mustang got away with his traps.

That last darn of yours was uncommonly neat.

Madame was darning socks for the young men.

"Too darn much for my skin," grumbled Werner.

The darned critters just get up and hike.

She's a darned pretty gal yet, all right.

Darn every bedroom slipper that was ever invented!

"I almost forgot Bobs's darn diet," she grumbled.

There were times when those darn Chinks groused.

You're so darn lucky it's made a loon out of you!

"You could if you had eyes," replied Darn loftily.

That smooth mouthpiece is asking too darn many questions.

Bertie looked soberly down at his old, well-darned mittens.

"That darned stove takes so long to heat up."

Redmond is sitting on a center ottoman, darning stockings.

Flattery is a darned subtle thing at any time.

Darning Needle, skimming over the water like an airship.

Rockets hovered like darning needles in the blue sky.

"He was a darn good guy," thought Rose mournfully.

You're a darned queer ungrateful cuss, and always were.

And poor Marjorie sitting home darning your socks, I suppose!

"I am quite willing to darn them," said Nancy meekly.

It came loose and the darn thing's no life preserver.

"Thwart the whole darned thing," Sinclair exclaimed emphatically.

I'll put some through the darn loopholes for you.

I darn nearly lost those new clothes of mine.

"You're a darned old crank, that's what you are!"

I caught him neatly darning his own woolen socks.

"I don't mind which sock I darn," she said.

The darn thing slants down a bit, you know.

"This," commented Roy, "is darned embarrassing to read aloud."

"Ye've got a darn lot of gall," Abner retorted.

"I only hope that darned pup isn't going mad."

Mending Bed Clothes: Fine threadbare blankets are worth darning.

I was getting darn tired of this spook business.

"Darned if I didn't plumb forget one thing," he said.

That ain't fair to the grizzlies, darned if it is!

The darning did not provide a superfluity, I guarantee you!

You darned old fox, I never did see yore beat.

Look how I've sweat all forenoon on that darned wing!

It was a darn fool stunt to write such things.

"Just one darned thing after another," the cynic replies.

Darn me if I ever was so astonished in my life!

Sew the opening with darning needle and stout string.

See that damsel fly, the slender, smaller, pretty-colored darning-needle?

I had burnt my letters and darned my socks.

Darn them for the four-flushing hypocrites that they are.

"I understood they know darn well where it's stashed."

Old dress, darned and patched up and all outgrown!

Darn with split sewing silk on the wrong side.

Exclaimed Helen Carter, looking ruefully at her darned glove.

The Argo zigzagged about like a darning-needle flying over a pond.

They knit feathery neck pieces and neglect stocking darning.

"Why on earth don't they mow this darned stuff?"

He's going to get you across the darn American border.

"And so they darn well ought," said the Senior Subaltern.

"Call him any darned thing you like," he said cheerily.

Dot was too depressed to think of much but darning.

My clothes are torn; I am too lazy to darn them.

"These darn-fool preachers think they know everything," muttered Boswell.

When I was a child, patching and darning was stylish.

Drive there darned quick, or I'll break your confounded neck.

Sew the opening with a stout darning needle and string.

Lathrop exclaimed, and added in English, "Well I'll be darned!"

"So you'll begin with your darn preaching," he remarked, gaping.

Jim's mother looked thoughtfully at the sock she was darning.

"These darned sealed envelopes we're still carrying around," Dave replied.

A little stocking, rather plentifully darned, was being darned again.

He would darn his clothes, and patch up his boots.

"Darned if I know," Bert said doubtfully, "that might be it."

"I don't remember a darned thing about it," he confessed glumly.

Jerry squirmed around on the barrel until he could see Darn.

Apply the design to a towel in crochet, cross-stitch or darning.

You're too darned superior for this country of commonsense business methods.

Next lesson let us learn how to keep our clothing darned.

A darn in the seat of the breeches held his gaze.

It seemed so odd somehow that Nelson's breeches should be darned.

"Ah, don't you try to seem too darn' innocent," Roland snarled.