Example Sentences

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“My prized possession. Had it since I was a boy. Never read me a book, but by jiggers, I have a bookcase. The doggone doggonedest bookcase you ever did hear of, too.”

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Kipping is the meanest, doggonedest, low-down wharf-runner that ever robbed poor Jack of his wages.

From The Mutineers by Hawes, Charles Boardman

The rest is ammonia, water, methane, a dozen important organics, including some of the damn ... doggonedest metallic complexes you ever heard of.

From Industrial Revolution by Anderson, Poul William

"Why, that's the doggonedest thing I ever heard!" he said.

From Alice Adams by Tarkington, Booth

When they get down, a big straddle truck on caterpillar treads picks them up—they land in the doggonedest places, sometimes!—and brings ’em back.

From Space Platform by Leinster, Murray