How to Use give a damn in a Sentence
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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 -
Y’all not going to pick us this year, still don’t give a damn.
— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023 -
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 -
Lindsay Lohan is too glam to give a damn in her latest Instagram post!
— Amethyst Tate, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2022 -
The Valley is talent-rich, but nobody seems to give a damn about Sun Devils football anymore.
— Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2022 -
Others were simply holding on in the current systems, struggling to hold on to their land and their connection to it, in a system that doesn’t give a damn for them.
— James Rebanks, Time, 5 Aug. 2021 -
Find some civility, reel in your Me-ism, give a damn about people other than yourselves.
— Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2022 -
Somebody who’s making the choices nobody else wants to make: a genuine, authentic person who don’t give a damn.
— Meaghan Garvey, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2022 -
Netflix doesn’t give a damn about anybody, only about the efficacy of its algorithm and, of course, its bottom line.
— Vulture, 29 Apr. 2022 -
Catherine de Medici didn't give a damn about her reputation.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2022 -
Like the Robocop remake, Expendables 3 was cut down to a PG-13 in pursuit of young audiences who didn’t give a damn about these old-school action stars or old-school franchises.
— Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021 -
This is a life-or-death emergency that divides responsible gun owners and responsive lawmakers from people who just don’t seem to give a damn.
— Van Jones, CNN, 7 June 2022 -
One major difference between this professional basketball job fair and an equivalent event for lawyers is that normal people don’t give a damn about David Boies’s children.
— Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2023 -
Unfortunately, Trump also doesn’t give a damn about the ordinary people who support him in his simulacrum of a presidency.
— John R. MacArthur, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021 -
All at once, David was offered a publishing contract, an artist recording contract and a management contract, all transferring pieces of himself to this guy who didn’t really know him or give a damn about him personally.
— Michael Kosser, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022 -
Presidents also became increasingly aware that claims of executive privilege could delay congressional and judicial inquiries past the time where anybody would give a damn.
— Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2021
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