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Example sentences for "tarnation"

Lexicographically close words:
tarlatan; tarletan; tarmac; tarn; tarnal; tarnel; tarnish; tarnished; tarnishes; tarnishing
  1. I conceit their min'stry have got jist about into as considerable a tarnation nasty fix, as a naked nigger in the stocks when the mosquitoes are steaming up a little beyond high pressure.

  2. At all events the Doctor, as the Yankees say, "put the critter up a tree," where we calculate he must have looked tarnation ugly.

  3. If the tarnation thing gives me the merry ha!

  4. There's a tarnation lot of company in the ship sometimes, which we get rid of in the best way we can.

  5. None at all, but I'd have been a tarnation sight more presentable if somebody had taken me in hand and licked me into shape.

  6. Not quite so good as that, skipper, but it's tarnation near it.

  7. Tarnation bother," grunted Hank, beginning to get the reason for the Mexican's interest in him.

  8. How in tarnation kin a man keep th' trail o' a slippery critter like him in these yere crowds?

  9. We've hit Blue-nose and Brother Jonathan both pretty considerable tarnation hard, and John has split his sides with larfter.

  10. The middy then uncoiled another length o’ cable abeout the fabbelus wimming o’ the sea, and said it were a tarnation pretty idea, that them angels from hevving as ruled the airth should keep watch over the treasures o’ the water.

  11. So off I starts for Doctor Eldrich; but by the time I got to the house, I begun to think what a tarnation goose I was to go on such a tomfool’s arrent.

  12. It war one of them tarnation bothers that tries a man's nerves.

  13. At last he thought, "I reckon Barney's right, but thar's no tarnation hurry.

  14. Perhaps it's empty, and these tarnation spies are in it," was the rejoinder in a lower tone.

  15. The cunnell," said he pathetically, "is such a tarnation fine gentleman spoilt for want of a lilly bit of blacking.

  16. I is goin' where Scottie an' the Parson goes; but where in tarnation is ye goin', and what for?

  17. What in tarnation does the old skunk mean?

  18. My old grandfather's shot scores of deer with the tarnation weppin, and I guess it's jest cranky, that's all.

  19. Said, so long as we didn’t have to get anyone in to take your place while you were out, he guessed we needn’t be so tarnation mean as all that!

  20. It's tarnation hard to outwit them, but it may be done when one knows his tracks well.

  21. They call it Philosophy (and that is such a pretty word it has made fools of more folks than them afore now,) but I call it tarnation nonsense.

  22. Then he said: "'Pears as if I couldn't see clarly after that tarnation blow.

  23. Speaking generally, therefore, a fraction may be considered as a "Tarnation Smashification.

  24. Wal, yes Guess'd we hev heaps of tarnation fun; I calculated quicker'n light That the herd would be off on a healthy run.

  25. It's a tarnation hard case that a fellow's obligated to be honest against his will," remarked the sailor despondingly.

  26. But a fellow who can listen to such a tarnation heart-twister as this here without runnin' out like a water spout, must have the soul o' a nigger.

  27. Men, ye've heard this tarnation villain confess thet he's tried to pizen Mr Flinders an' myself.

  28. I've a tarnation good mind to seize ye up an' give ye four dozen right away.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tarnation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.