How to Use darn near in a Sentence
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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
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So darn near everything in the car was stiffened up a bit.
—Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 16 Sep. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Until the night the Ravens' 2019 season was stopped cold, their offense was darn near unstoppable.
—Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 2 Oct. 2020
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Cam Newton was darn near flawless as New England ran up a 13-0 lead after the first quarter.
—BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
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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
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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
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This question was answered last year after Kearse joined the Cowboys: darn near everything.
—Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2022
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Amazon has solved darn near every riddle in the e-commerce world, with one big exception: groceries.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2022
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Well, workouts that seemed easy a week before will suddenly seem darn near impossible.
—Outside Online, 20 Aug. 2021
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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
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Be forewarned—finding a bottle is darn near a mission impossible.
—Dan Dunn, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2020
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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
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Study participants scored significantly better than chance — and sometimes darn near perfect — for all nine species sampled.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2017
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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
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