(v. t.) To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.
(n.) A place mended by darning.
(v. t.) A colloquial euphemism for Damn.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(2) To non-artists, there may not seem to be anything original or provocative about love, death, loneliness or cheese, either – yet gosh-darned artists keep finding new ways for humanity to look at them.
(3) There were a similar number of sliding hernias in the Shouldice repair (14) and plication darn (20) groups.
(4) NBA.com writer Steve Aschburner notes that this is essentially a no-win situation for him : Physically, Rose faces a darned-if-he-does, darned-if-he-doesn't dilemma.
(5) It’s a darn sight better,” laughed Juris, “than visiting him in jail”.
(6) The British method known as "nylon darn" has shown to be effective in preservation of deep groin anatomy.
(7) Though she pursued further studies and wrote, Aung San Suu Kyi did bring up children, darn socks and run grocery errands.
(8) Masuku also rejected the firebrand leftist Julius Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF): "I read the EFF manifesto and I found some pretty good darned stuff there but they are so radical and so violent, they actually sound racist.
(9) That was pretty darn special, but only, you'll notice, a three-goal salvage job.
(10) This identified a considerable range in methods of repair, with a Moloney nylon darn being the sole method used by 35% of consultants, and the Shouldice technique, either alone or in combination with other methods, being used by 20%.
(11) Marc Ostwald from Monument Securities says: They haven't quite sold the complete amount but they got pretty darn close … Demand still very much more domestic than anything else.
(12) I got back into a program of recovery and life has been pretty darn good ever since,” she said.
(13) Another, tweaking an obscure bit of the film's dialogue, said: "I'm afraid you're just too darned disorganised."
(14) Darn, I was looking forward to seeing what sort of penalty Ozil would take ... 7.15pm BST Arsenal 2-2 Hull: half-time in extra-time Stay tuned!
(15) But, after days of patient care, one of the craft's wings has been stretched out into an approximation of its original shape, and the holes have been patched up with ovals of metal riveted on to the body work, like a large-scale piece of darning.
(16) He said: "Let's be frank, he [Brown] was a darn sight better than at prime minister's questions."
(17) Her speech is American-accented and peppered with "darn" and "have a nice day".
(18) patient age was 58.3(1.5) (range 20-84) years for Shouldice repair and 57.0(1.2) (range 18-85 years) for plication darn.
(19) The inguinal darn for recurrent inguinal hernias appears to have a lower recurrence rate than the reported 15% to 30% following other techniques.
(20) 'We’re too darned modest about what we do': Radio 3 boss Alan Davey's typical day Read more In that week’s Radio Times, the BBC’s director general, Sir William Haley, had set out the Third’s stall to the nation: “presenting the great classical repertoire in music and drama, and so far as they are broadcastable, in literature and the other arts … it will seek every evening to do something that is culturally satisfying and significant.” It was the year that everything changed for the arts in Britain.
Dearn
Definition:
(a.) Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful.
(v. t.) Same as Darn.
Example Sentences:
(1) Making his announcement, Healey, MP for Wentworth and Dearne and a member of the party’s national executive, said he originally had no intention of standing but added: “I’ve been dismayed at how narrow and shallow Labour’s debate has been so far.” Writing for the Guardian , he said: “I know I’m a late entrant when others have been up and running for some time.
(2) The high court in London ordered Jane Collins to pay £54,000 each to Sarah Champion, Kevin Barron and John Healey, the MPs for Rotherham, Rother Valley, and Wentworth and Dearne respectively.
(3) Shadow minister for housing and planning John Healey, 55, MP for Wentworth and Dearne since 1997 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian In a shadow cabinet light on hands-on experience, Healey is notable for having done his job from the government benches; he served as housing minister under Brown from 2009-10, having been a junior minister since 2002.
(4) Transatlantic trade deal will undermine climate talks in favour of big business | Mark Dearn Read more It said the government must be allowed to expand the NHS without facing a legal challenge, and Brussels needed stronger evidence to back up its claim that the deal would bring a boost of £100bn a year to the UK.
(5) Speaking to Sky News in January last year, Caven Vines, the former leader of Ukip on Rotherham council, claimed that the MP for Wentworth and Dearne, John Healey, and the MP for Rother Valley, Sir Kevin Barron, “knew what was going on”.
(6) Privatising public services is no way to fund sustainable development | Mark Dearn and Meera Karunananthan Read more DfID has described its partnerships with the private sector as an “ engine of growth ”.
(7) Married to Ed Balls John Healey Votes 192 Age 50 Constituency Wentworth and Dearne Experience Former housing minister and prominent Balls supporter Ed Balls Votes 179 Age 43 Constituency Morley and Outwood Experience: Former children's secretary who failed in his bid to become Labour leader, partly because of his very close association with Gordon Brown Andy Burnham Vote 165 Age 40 Constituency Leigh Experience Former health secretary who stood for the leadership as the non-metropolitan candidate Angela Eagle Votes 165 Age 49 Constituency Wallasey Experience Treasury minister and pensions minister under Brown.
(8) John Healey The former trade union and charity campaigner has been the MP for Wentworth and Dearne since 1997.
(9) He then met locals in Belford, Northumberland who have developed a cheap, effective system of “bunds” to protect themselves from flooding and in the Dearne Valley, Yorkshire where similar work is proposed.