Bot dern is the lave of Elfinland wud, (The knicht pruvit false that ance luvit me.
Thydder went this wrath or schaddo of Ene, That semyt, all abasyt, fast to fle, And hyd hyr dern vndre hychis tharin.
We want to send a message,” was the gruff rejoinder, “and dern quick, too.
Bully for you,” came back the blunt answer from old Captain Braithwaite, “we need you dern bad.
And he continued, "Yes, you fellers can say what yer dern please about yer broncos, but that little horse can corral any dern piece of horseflesh yer can show up.
Dern me, ef he ain't the wise ol' son of a gun," he cried delightedly.
Dern me if I didn't plumb forgit about any chance of her showin' up.
You bay, you, dern me if you ain't a reg'lar goat!
Well, McGuire he gets five other dernfools and off they starts and that's the end of them.
But the dern Indians they had with 'em as guides cleaned out the camp one fine night, and they had a hard time getting back to civilization alive.
So along between ten and eleven o'clock that night he sings out: "I give in, gosh dern ye, I give in!
Get me a ladder, gol dern ye, and I'll mount out o'here and learn ye to brother me, I will!
Yer know dern well you're too blame lazy to shovel enough coal under the old wash biler to git her het up none before we git home.
Yer dern fool, what made yer let all the steam outer the biler.
Penrod squawked, dropped the stone, and shouted, "Shut up, you dern fool!
Let me git at the dern little skunk," he said; and vaulting over the fence with the agility of an acrobat, he took the sleek, fawnlike creature in his strong arms and stood holding it against his breast as if it were an infant.
Not one dern step, Topenebe," he swore grimly, "with these yere things on my legs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
