drat
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That’s a question the Seahawks will likely deliver a final answer to when the drat rolls around later this month, the logical time to make a trade if the Seahawks were to eventually consider it.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
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
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
“Absolutely,” cried the bard, “in a flash! A Fflam never hesitates. Fortunes of war and all that. Oh, drat and blast! There goes another string. A thick one, too.”
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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
I am still unbelievably sore—not from the crash but from holding the dratted plane in level flight all during that final hour.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
"But if you go dratting things, I can't economize," the girl reminded him.
From Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter
"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
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