How to Use dang in a Sentence

dang

adjective or adverb
  • All your dang eggs in one basket.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • Quebec teams were no dang good.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Just give us the dang horses next year.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Feb. 2026
  • And, of course, there’s all those dang reptiles Texas is known for.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 June 2026
  • Because finding gifts for tea lovers is a pretty dang easy task.
    — Anna Borges, SELF, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The sleepless nights, the changing classrooms, and those dang blue books.
    — Maribel Molina, ajc, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Raye is topping global charts and looking dang good while doing it.
    — Elise Tabin, InStyle, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Not to be dramatic, but the year is already off to a pretty dang good start.
    — Annie Blackman, InStyle, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The ice packs had long melted, but the cans of soda were pretty dang refreshing.
    — Francesca Krempa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Love is in the air – love between psycho soulmates, love that's not skin deep, and love for stuff that will scare your dang pants off.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Inflation is issue number one for the Fed, and the news is pretty dang good.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The only problem, my dear reader, is that there are simply too many dang smashburgers.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 May 2024
  • So scientists are pretty dang confident that fiber is good for you, but aren’t entirely sure why.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Is the dang hat an amazing and eloquent comment by Cabello on having to swim in the fishbowl of fame?
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • There is no shame in finally breaking down and making your own jean shorts because last summer's are just too dang short for this summer's thighs.
    — Kendall Trammell, CNN, 24 July 2019
  • So of course the show leaves us on a cliffhanger when Ally rolls over in bed and there's another one of those dang clowns right there beside her.
    — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Even though phone screens have gotten much better, the replacement process is scarring enough to make anyone just buy the dang screen protector.
    — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The triplex, which has five terraces, eight balconies, and six wood-burning fireplaces, seems like a much better investment than that dang ferry.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2025
  • And then watch the Facit ESA-01 completely lose its dang mind.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2016
  • That’s the whole dang league except for Oklahoma State and Iowa State, neither of which have a chance.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Occasionally hitting a bad pitch that stays flat doesn’t mitigate the vast majority of whiffs at the same dang pitch over and over.
    — Will Sammon, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • But now, after Amazon exploded, there’s so much toing and froing that the dang streetcar itself can’t get through.
    — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Fans have been asking for these cars for years; Ferrari’s already won the dang thing three times since the 499P first hit the track.
    — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 10 June 2026
  • That was a lot of fun for tonight personally and just seeing the way the guys had reacted to getting down early and battling back against a pretty dang good team.
    — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The Crossfade 2 Wireless are an excellent pair of over-ear headphones that are also pretty dang life-proof.
    — Scott Gilbertson, Wired, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The short closes out with an emotional conversation between Kiriko and her mother, who slips in a pretty dang funny line right at the end.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Meyers acted his dang butt off in this sketch, and the audience paid him back with unsure and hesitating titters — not crickets, but not enthusiasm either.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The polar bear in the show’s pilot was one of its initial big, buzzy mysteries, and the series never had someone explain just why those dang polar bears were on the damn Island in the first place!
    — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Chip shows the video to Alex, who, not knowing what else to do and feeling pretty dang guilty about not signing the travel docs to cover for her, hands the video over to UBN legal, Celine, and Ben.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Invite humor, but in the results of Week 1494, once again our Loserbards were pretty dang funny writing poems containing words that most of us had never heard of, and in some cases couldn’t even pronounce.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 21 July 2022

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