darned
adjective
well-darned
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a word derived from
darned.
Example Sentences
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In it were a pair of well-darned kid gloves and two tiny paper packages.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various
Then, while her brothers watched her, deeply interested, she took off her shoes, and in her well-darned little red stockings climbed deliberately upon the grindstone.
From John Ward, Preacher by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
He was a tall and very thin man, meanly dressed in a short, scanty jacket and well-darned hose.
From Under the Red Robe by Stanley John Weyman
Bertie looked soberly down at his old, well-darned mittens.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
He was a tall and very thin man, meanly dressed in a short scanty jacket and well-darned hose.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
