How to Use damn in a Sentence

damn

1 of 3 verb
Definition of damnnext
Synonyms for damnnext
  • He damned them for their stupidity.
  • Be big, run fast, jump high, do good around cones, and damn the game tape.
    — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Which, not to damn a great actor with faint praise, isn’t a huge bar to clear.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Thought Madewell was just for cozy knitwear and damn good denim?
    — Erin Parker, Glamour, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Of people not afraid to deal with epic problems, damn the odds.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2021
  • The unredacted portions of the report are damning enough.
    — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 22 July 2019
  • That’s a lofty goal for any player, bloodlines be damned.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 24 May 2018
  • Banister, though, said that Choo was going to hit for Rua in the eighth, streak be damned.
    — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 11 July 2018
  • The record’s production is one-note, and half of its 19 tracks are filler, but damn if Rich Homie Quan can’t spin a yarn.
    — Rachel Yang, Chicago Reader, 21 June 2018
  • To see those monkeys from those African countries, damn them.
    — Luke Broadwater, baltimoresun.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Rats were determined to stake out each male scent at least once, risk be damned.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Sep. 2019
  • But Erica damn sure put the work in to earn it in previous years.
    — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Semien might knock in 100 runs anyway, leadoff spot be damned.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Mr Katyal acknowledged that the text alone does not damn the travel rules.
    — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Meanwhile, the stats are damning for Premier League sides against La Liga teams.
    — SI.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Thickets of invasive phragmites choke the area, that can damn up the discharge and block the movement of most wildlife.
    — Sofia Jeremias, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The other sedans and the Turbo wagon bordered on being fun, which is not to damn them with faint praise . . .
    — William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 27 June 2023
  • Sumlin announced that Gunnell would be part of the mix, redshirt be damned.
    — Michael Lev, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Then the scale will be huge, and nuclear weapons, then surely someone will use it, damn it.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022
  • At the risk of damning with faint praise, Solo is… competent!
    — Scott Meslow, GQ, 25 May 2018
  • But people should not go out there and damn the consequences.
    — Ashley Laderer, SELF, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The mythical Greek was damned eternally to roll a boulder up a hill and watch it roll back down again.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • But then, running up on to the stage for my curtain call at the end of the show, one of the loafers (damn Alexandra and her slightly wider feet) came flying off.
    — Abby Kohn, Glamour, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Z Greinke was damned near perfect through six, throwing just 67 pitches, few of them hit hard.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Merely to describe the bill is to damn it, and describing it is a Herculean task in itself.
    — The Editors, National Review, 8 Mar. 2021
  • If Icarus was damned by hubris, Whitney Houston seems from the film to have been propelled by something else: pain.
    — Graham Ambrose, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2018
  • The survivalist is willing to damn the rest of the world to protect the man who stumbled into his hideout.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The man on Connor’s TV isn’t the brute of myth who damned his children to keep pushing the same rock up the same hill, day after day, year after year.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
  • Through an hour of damning chat logs and audio recordings, Dalton showed no emotion.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • An enraged Angelique would damn Barnabas to enteral life as a vampire, kicking off a battle between the two that would continue through different time periods.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2023
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damn

2 of 3 noun
  • I don't want to hear about your problems—I just don't give a damn.
  • Like how to know which damn shoes to wear with your pants.
    — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 12 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Lisa is shady, shady, shady, but hot damn, can the woman turn a phrase.
    — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Fox News doesn’t give a damn about press watchdogs and Pulitzers.
    — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Kyle is right; just tell us the whole damn story all at once and get it out there.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The water drained from the lake when a natural damn made of ice broke.
    — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Who gives a damn about sports right now in the wake of the Waukesha Christmas parade tragedy?
    — Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2021
  • There's a few of them that do, but there's a lot of them that really don't give a damn...
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 9 June 2020
  • James put the team on his damn back and almost won a game against four Hall-of-Famers by himself.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 1 June 2018
  • So that’s why prospects think of damn near anything to get their minds off of football.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
  • And who would give one damn about such a meaningless event?
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 29 June 2019
  • As much as Zeke has given this franchise, that shouldn’t be the last damn play Zeke played.
    — Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The sophomore receiver stood on the sideline in damn near shock as Penn State iced the game.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Mark Cuban and Dan DeVos don’t give a damn and never will.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2020
  • For that price—50 damn cents each!—my daily sunny-side-up eggs will have to wait.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2023
  • There is still nothing in the league more fearsome than when the Warriors decide to give a damn.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Quite simply, no one would give a damn about these two mothers.
    — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Von Anhalt still doesn't give a damn about what people say.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2018
  • But for the last three years, we've been consumed by a president who frankly doesn't give a damn about your kids or mine.
    — NBC News, 1 Aug. 2019
  • There are two hooks embedded in Walton Islands, facing the damn, that the boat is tied to.
    — Janelle Walker, Elgin Courier-News, 5 June 2017
  • In reality, says Bukovsky, the West doesn’t give a damn about Russia.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Jan. 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
  • There are a lotta 60-year-old men who have wrinkles, no hair, glasses, and nobody gives a damn.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 3 Mar. 2018
  • The cruel truth is that misfortune doesn’t give a damn about the content of your character or the size of your biceps.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The average building designer doesn’t seem to give a damn about it.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Mexico doesn’t give a damn about who is coming through their country to us.
    — Manny Fernandez, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2017
  • And not to give a damn about the party establishment or the conventions of politics along the way.
    — Steve Kornacki, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2017
  • That should give anyone chills who gives a damn about clean sport, as job pressure is one of the clearest incentives to dope.
    — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2015
  • So many damn unfit people saying hate speech is free speech.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2022
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damn

3 of 3 adjective or adverb
  • Just stick the foot in the ground and make the damn play.
    — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The best months of the year are here again, and it’s about damn time.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Okay @DennisNia do the damn thing girl; this was so fun to watch!
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Those are the plays that get me in the ‘wow’ moment or the ‘damn’ moment.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • And a lot of it is just finishing the damn book on time.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 July 2022
  • You and the farmer and his wife and all the pigs and chickens in the entire damn farm have been warned.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • Last night was therapy with the best damn rock band in the world.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 17 June 2023
  • Watching the damn things grow is just the most amazing thing.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2020
  • There ain’t a tree or a president in the whole damn book.
    — David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2021
  • It’s caked from edge to edge with ground chile to the point that the whole damn thing is nearly red.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Feb. 2021
  • And yet, there’s not a damn thing anyone seems able to do about it.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2021
  • That woman held that gun out in front of her for a long damn time.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 14 Apr. 2021
  • And it’s a damn shame Rosengren has to leave under a cloud.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • And, there are some damn fine lawns in Canada these days.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2020
  • So here Tony Romo is talking about the same thing, the same gear, the same damn shirt.
    — Luke Johnson, NOLA.com, 23 Dec. 2020
  • And so, now that this work stoppage or takeover is in place, the D.O.C. can’t do a damn thing about it.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Like, all these influencers do the same damn thing, make the same jokes, the same kind of frat boys.
    — Michael Silverman, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Just kick the damn field goal and put pressure on the other team’s offense to win the game.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 2 Oct. 2022
  • When in Vienna, ladies, do as Freud did and get on the damn couch!
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • And all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this.
    — NBC News, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The ending was beyond stupid and just ruined the whole damn show.
    — Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 19 Feb. 2021
  • But the damn thing keeps flying around, putting holes in people’s lives.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2021
  • But could the Browns actually win the whole damn thing?
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 8 Feb. 2021
  • After that night, the statue did not stay in its damn place much longer.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 28 May 2021
  • The girl talking about doing merch with those damn shoes.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Heat 2 is read by Peter Giles, who is doing the damn thing.
    — Vulture, 11 Sep. 2022
  • And then, as if that weren't enough, the actor, singer, and beauty brand founder got the cutest damn haircut in all the land.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The interesting thing to me was with all them rough ass niggas they were supposed to have with them, none of them did a damn thing and tried to come after us.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The Navy has patriotic leaders, dedicated commanders, and the best damn sailors in the world.
    — Jim Talent, National Review, 6 Jan. 2024

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