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But as might be expected in the cat-and-mouse game that is the run-up to the drat, he also said the team could well stay use its first-round pick at number 21.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2019

Video has surfaced of the arrest over the weekend of Seahawks' top drat pick Malik McDowell.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2017

But Carroll resisted that idea, repeating what Schneider had said — that this was simply a deep defensive back drat.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2017

Arnold said, or some variant of drat, and threw his shoes and clubs in the suddenly quiet locker room.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 23, 2010

“I don’t want to hear it any more. You sing it very well, but I drat want it again. Uncurl, you idiot, and tell me where you learned to sing.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

I certainly wish Germany to stay in the Eurozone, not to be able to dip into its dratted kitty, but for its own sake as well as for Europe's sake.

From Economist ● May 2, 2013

The Zags are left to sort out how much of that exit was due to their own frailties and how much to dratted ill timing and bad luck.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2013

The dratted devices also make it easier for managers in one time zone to spoil the evenings of managers in another.

From Economist ● Mar. 8, 2012

And the grand old game of golf has never been the same since some dratted tinkerer invented the wedge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he turned away, drew his sleeve over his nose, and got up, and stamped about, trying to whistle, and saying between the efforts: ‘Where’s that dratted creature?’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

"Doing nothing's the hardest job I ever struck," he growled, shifting impatiently from shade to shade, and dratting the flies and dust; and even sank so low as to envy the missus her house.

From We of the Never-Never by Jeannie Gunn

"But if you go dratting things, I can't economize," the girl reminded him.

From Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter