DARN in a Sentence
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28 example sentences for DARN, such as:
1. Please darn the hole in my sock.
2. You say I'm so darn materialistic.
3. I don't want to darn your trousers.
4. He's so darn afraid you'll be offended if he smokes.
5. He sat down heavily and watched her as she picked up her darning.
2. You say I'm so darn materialistic.
3. I don't want to darn your trousers.
4. He's so darn afraid you'll be offended if he smokes.
5. He sat down heavily and watched her as she picked up her darning.
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Meanings and Examples of DARN
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darn
v. repair by sewing
n. something of little value
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 It's mighty pretty, but I'll admit we aren't any too darn artistic.
2 You say I'm so darn materialistic.
3 He's so darn afraid you'll be offended if he smokes.
4 As I say, first you shock him, and then you become so darn flighty that nobody can follow you.
5 Kennicott muttering "Gol darn it," but patiently creeping out of bed, remembering to draw the covers up to keep her warm, feeling for slippers and bathrobe, clumping down-stairs.
6 Why, Dave, the darn fool, sent me ether, instead of chloroform like I told him, and you know ether fumes are mighty inflammable, especially with that lamp right by the table.
7 Carol heard him confiding to Bea, "You're a darn nice Swede girl."
8 We have to darn socks, and yet we're not content to think of nothing but socks and darning-cotton.
9 When the little figure had vanished in the darkness the reddleman returned, resumed his seat by the fire, and proceeded to darn again.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
10 It flew open, and there he stood in his dressing gown, with a big blue sock on one hand and a darning needle in the other.
11 The German gentlemen embroider, I know, but darning hose is another thing and not so pretty.
12 If Peggotty were looking for a hole, all of a sudden, in the heel of that stocking, it must have been a very little one indeed, and not worth darning.
13 I cannot conceive whose stockings they can have been that Peggotty was always darning, or where such an unfailing supply of stockings in want of darning can have come from.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
14 He sat down heavily and watched her as she picked up her darning.
15 Bea was competent; there was no household labor except sewing and darning and gossipy assistance to Bea in bed-making.
Example Sentence:
1 I don't want to darn your trousers.
2 Please darn the hole in my sock.