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How to use dang in a sentence

22 example sentences · verb, interjection, adjective

Dang means damn. Example: “I don't give a dang.”

Examples of dang by meaning

adverbDamn.

  • Draining your pasta water (and reserving a bit for your pasta sauce recipe) is so dang easy with this clip-on strainer.2024 October 8, Lauren Gruber, Megan Uy, “We Found Sooo Many Viral TikTok Items on Sale for October Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan

nounA damn, a negligible quantity, minimal consideration.

  • I don't give a dang.

nounA dam (structure placed around a body of water), used because of the homophony between dam and damn.

  • People like to joke that I once went on vacation to the Hoover Dang.2006 October 3, Lute Olson, David Fisher, Lute!: The Seasons of My Life, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 4
  • “Momma, Keisha says we have to call it the 'Hoover Dang'.” Monique laughed, and it felt good.2009, Chuck Holton, Melt Down, Multnomah, →ISBN, page 194

More sentences with dang

  • Dang, girl! Your brother is gorgeous! I want him so bad!From the entry want
  • Dang, I’m handcuffed by these regulations. I’d like to help but it’d be illegal.From the entry handcuff
  • Dang it! I forgot to wash the car.From the entry dang it
  • Those danged mosquitoes won't leave me alone!From the entry danged
  • And if you weren't about to be hanged, I'd be pretty dang jealous.2017 September 11, Brian Boyle, “West to Mexico” (15:46 from the start), in American Dad!, season 14, episode 22, spoken by Stan Smith…. From the entry goose egg
  • He's like the most diggety dang DY-NO-MITE character in his game.2009 March 3, Eclipse-of-42, “Of Glitz and Fury, Ch. 4”, in Deviant Art. From the entry diggety
  • A pocket-size Venus, with the longest stems he'd ever seen on someone so dang diminutive.2008, Lori Wilde, Rhonda Nelson, Cara Summers, August Harlequin Blaze. From the entry stem
  • Almost every night them danged foxen were raiding my henhice.” “Excuse me, sir,” I interjected.2007, Richard Lederer, Word Wizard, page 124. From the entry foxen
  • Dang Shen comes from the Shangdang district of Shanxi province of China.2001, Xiangcai Xu, “Practical Chinese Materia Medica for Healthcare”, in Traditional Chinese Health Secrets: The Essential Guide to…. From the entry Shangdang
  • "Whyn't he tell me, the dang little fool?" "He did!" Mrs.1921, Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams, page 389. From the entry whyn't
  • Then he'll tell that danged lap to cut out his tricks, an' come across with the money.1920, Raymond S. Spears, The Argosy - Volume 125, Issue 2. From the entry come across with
  • When the pandemic-related food shortages hit, i couldn't find a dang can of 'dines anywhere on the shelves.2022, Timothy Cotton, Dawn in the Dooryard, page 192. From the entry 'dine
  • The valentine's hatchie is so dang cute!2010 February 17, Hell Puppi, “Re: The Dragon Cave IV: Get Your Own Dragons”, in Giant in the Playground Forum, archived from the original…. From the entry hatchie
  • “Dang!” Tempest shook her head and rolled her eyes.2002, Zane, The Heat Seekers, page 184. From the entry twenty-five/eight
  • “Dang, I sound like I'm talking to my man.” “I tried your cell phone, but you didn't answer.” “I left it at home, Friday.2008, Camika Spencer, Cubicles, page 68. From the entry bad
  • The longer I lives with that blamed hatchet-face cross between a danged fool and a heavenly angel, the less I sabe his wau-wau.1921, W.C. Tuttle, The Devil's Dooryard. From the entry sabe
  • "Dang you, Luck, if you wasn't such a little runt I'd come up there and jest about lick the pants off you!"1916, B. M. Bower, chapter 9, in The Heritage of the Sioux. From the entry lick the pants off
  • The territory administered comprised Feng county in present-day Shaan xi, and the two present-day counties of Hui 徽縣 and Liang dang 兩當 in Gan su 甘肅.2017, Hua Linfu, Paul D. Buell, Paul U. Unschuld, Ben Cao Gang Mu Dictionary, volume 2, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN…. From the entry feng

Meaning of dang

  1. verb Damn.
  2. noun A damn, a negligible quantity, minimal consideration.
  3. noun A dam (structure placed around a body of water), used because of the homophony between dam and damn.

Full definition of dang

Questions about dang in a sentence

How do you use dang in a sentence?
Dang is used as a verb, interjection and adjective. For example: “I don't give a dang.”
What is a short sentence with dang?
“I don't give a dang.”
What does dang mean?
Dang means damn.

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