dast
Americanverb (used without object)
Example Sentences
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And he speaks so deeply from character that he makes even a line like “Nobody dast blame this man” sound as natural as “hello.”
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2012
"Nobody dast blame this man," a friend says at the funeral of Willy Loman.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Dont you dast to beller! Dont you. Dar hit is. See? Here. You fixin to start ef you stays here. Come on, les go see ef dey started knockin ball yit.”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
I didn’t dast take the chancet of Ed Turner hearin’ me call to ye.”
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
“I thought yer didn’t dast run into me.”
From The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)
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