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Example sentences for "derned"

Lexicographically close words:
dermatitis; dermis; dermoid; dern; derne; dernier; derniere; dernieres; derniers; derogate
  1. She's bound to throw even THAT away on some derned skunk of a man, natoorally; but three millions is too much to give a chap for makin' her onhappy.

  2. I don't say, neither--and it's a derned sight more likely!

  3. Derned ef Jabez ain't a comin long with the res' on us.

  4. The gal's derned hansum, though she be mos' too black complected.

  5. Ye confiscated my house and tuk my crops fer yer derned army.

  6. Look's if th' gaul-derned thing was agoin' to jibe, Skipper!

  7. And then I thinks: "I'll be gosh-derned if I meddle.

  8. But I says to myself I will have the derned thing out here and now, and know the worst.

  9. Yes, SIR, Burley Peoples is his name--and he shore kin squall, the derned little cuss!

  10. But, so long as the doctor appeared to want to find her so derned bad, I was awful glad I had been the means of getting him and Miss Lucy together.

  11. That square was like a great big stage in front of me, and I laid in the darkness on my lumber pile and watched things like a show--not much scared because it WAS so derned unreal.

  12. This here story they are thrashing out in there is the only derned sure-enough romanceful story either you or me is ever lible to run up against personal in all our lives.

  13. And each one was so derned tickled the other one wasn't going to do any pining away we like to of fell into love all over agin.

  14. Well, a feller can be a derned fool sometimes.

  15. Then I says to myself is she is mean enough to do that I'll be derned if I don't go to jail before I marry her, and stay there.

  16. It's on'y the one figger but I'll be derned if it don't look natcherul.

  17. Some derned sheepman gone crazy an' shot his-self," grumbled Sam.

  18. If I'm not first, I guess I'm a derned good second.

  19. Now string me up, and be derned to ye, but let this young feller go back to look after my daughter.

  20. Jeff closed his eyes, murmuring confusedly, "I b'lieve it'd help me some if you was to stroke my derned head.

  21. Guess it was one o' them derned squatters.

  22. She jest stuck up that derned little nose o' hern an' said: 'I am an American as long as I live.

  23. I wish I could find that derned lantern," said Anderson, searching diligently in the deep grass as he walked along, in the meantime permitting Bonner to reach the grim old doorway far in advance of him.

  24. Go ahead yourself, ef you're so derned brave.

  25. Rosalie give him a pearl dingus to wear in his cravat, an' derned ef he don't have to wear a collar all the time now.

  26. This derned old calaboose of ourn ain't any too safe.

  27. Her derned husband wouldn't stay divorced when he found out Dave could support a fambly as big as that.

  28. He was so derned cold that he didn't feel like crackin' anybody.

  29. An' the derned fool women 'lowed her to do it, too.

  30. But the derned thing's round," was the only thing Ed Higgins could find to say.

  31. Derned old deserted house halting a company of Union cavalry, and making us gape like babies!

  32. The corporal addressed him with profound straightforwardness: "Don't you be a derned fool!

  33. What occasion there was to be dod derned about it is a thing which is still as much of a mystery to me now as it was then.

  34. He did come up; and that's all the good it done, the dod-derned fool.

  35. Them derned Ohio chaps gobbled every smidgin of it.

  36. I tell ye, pard, this is purty derned tough!

  37. I'd like to see just how derned stupid I've been!

  38. The Lord knows I want to learn every derned pertinent fact--want to badly!

  39. Then he remarked quietly: "This is going to be a derned complicated business.

  40. I've met some derned good liars in my time, but you beat the lot.

  41. Say I've gone--oh, anywhere you derned well like!

  42. We are touring this beautiful country and I've lost my luggage owing to the derned foolishness of the railroad officials here.

  43. Possibly--but it strikes me as a derned feeble dodge.

  44. Well anyway, this derned story is going about, and something's got to be done to stop it.

  45. We 've helt 'em back; derned if we haven't.

  46. I don't believe the derned old army's ever going to move.

  47. It's this derned old--" The friend seemed jaded, but he interrupted his comrade with a voice of calm confidence.

  48. And I don't see any sense in fighting and fighting and fighting, yet always losing through some derned old lunkhead of a general.

  49. He'll jump like a derned locust before I'm through with him.

  50. You're spoiling for a good scrap, the whole derned crowd of you.

  51. Derned silly thing to do, anyway, but he was scared of the folks.

  52. Don't point the derned thing at my stomach.

  53. A sharp query at once arose, 'Where's that derned skunk, Peter?

  54. Derned if I won't pay her passage myself.

  55. Sits sucking a glass and stares like a derned old owl whenever I talk straight--squirms like a pesky fish trying to get back to water.

  56. You're too derned full to get the cork out.

  57. Here's to the derned old hole with a cold million in it," said the miner, naming the toast and draining his glass in the same breath.

  58. Cur'os, how derned big this world is, ain't it, parson?

  59. Do you think I'm afraid of the derned scoundrel?

  60. The loungers agreed it was "too bad that Jud and Justine was so derned pore, but mebbe they'd make out somehow er 'nother.

  61. Harve's such a derned careless fool he didn't ast anythin' about that part of it.

  62. The corporal addressed him with profound straightforwardness, "Don't you be a derned fool!

  63. The truth is, I feel derned mean about some o' the things I've said to you when I look back on 'em.

  64. I'll be derned ef he don't favor Nelson a little about the head an' eyes.

  65. Don't seem to be any let-up to the derned stuff, Jack," Perk at this time observed in the ear of his running mate.

  66. I c'n understand heow he felt though, an' she don't seem so derned queer to me after all.

  67. Varmont is a State, an' one of ther smartest gol derned States in ther Union, by gum!

  68. You're havin' a gol derned pile of fun with me," he said, sheepishly.

  69. Any time yer derned old fire is hot, I 'm ready to dance.

  70. Why you limb, You ornery, Derned old Long-legged Jim!

  71. Why, ef he'd straddled thet fence-rail the derned thing 'ed get up and buck.

  72. And I think that saving a little child, And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the Throne.

  73. The boys drop into the saloons because there ain't another derned place in the town to go to after dark.

  74. He burst forth: "You crazy, derned hoptoad of a gal!

  75. Derned funny where that Dick Beckworth has holed up," Blaney was saying.

  76. But I know that derned crazy gal was the cause of Dick Beckworth's end.


  77. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "derned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.