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
• So darn near everything in the car was stiffened up a bit.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 16 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Old dude has moved around and darn near memorized those footsteps.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Until the night the Ravens' 2019 season was stopped cold, their offense was darn near unstoppable.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• Cam Newton was darn near flawless as New England ran up a 13-0 lead after the first quarter.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• This question was answered last year after Kearse joined the Cowboys: darn near everything.
  — Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2022
• Amazon has solved darn near every riddle in the e-commerce world, with one big exception: groceries.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2022
• But Westbrook avoided that outcome by doing darn near everything else a player could be expected to do on the court.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Well, workouts that seemed easy a week before will suddenly seem darn near impossible.
  — Outside Online, 20 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Be forewarned—finding a bottle is darn near a mission impossible.
  — Dan Dunn, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Study participants scored significantly better than chance — and sometimes darn near perfect — for all nine species sampled.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2017
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024