Object

• sock: For ever after it was my job to darn the socks and stockings.

• wool: The knitter had bought card after card of darning wool to make her cardigan.

• mushroom: Monday Was Washing Day: dolly blue, donkey stone, darning mushroom!

Converse of object

• give: Costello: I said I don't give a darn!

Adjective complement

• difficult: Remember, as you well know, it's only too easy to put on - but darned difficult to get off!

• expensive: Wow, paying your crew is pretty darned expensive.

Modifies a noun

• sarf: Not long now, sail out 6am on the 7th from Dover - heading darn sarf on the 6th.

• sight: Many places have live music, which is a darn sight better than the music you get in the curry houses.

• thing: You have to hold the darn thing in your hands the entire time!

• close: Maybe not 100 % ' comprehensive ' as the title implies... but pretty darn close!

• site: Thank you very much for your attention - darn site better service than you get from too many big companies!

• read: Meet new friends and contacts -- and have a darn good read.

Modifying Another Word

• pretty: Seems like a pretty darn simple concept to me.

• too: Faith Hill was just too darn pretty to stay pure country.

• so: Actually, their whole TV family is so darn cute w / all those cute little blond kids!

Noun used with modifier

• nylon: Prospective randomized trial of polypropylene mesh compared with nylon darn in inguinal hernia repair.