Examples of use of damndest
1. "I tried my damndest." Dee Dee Myers, a press secretary for President Bill Clinton, said the press room needed a make–over.
2. We took a helicopter ride with him over New Orleans this week, and he was angry at what he saw: "We tried our damndest to warn everybody.
3. As an interviewer, Ed could get people to say the damndest thing because he put them at ease,‘‘ said former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw. It was like talking not to a reporter, but talking to an interested counselor of some kind. ... He had this wonderful way of stroking his beard and saying, Well, what do you mean by that?‘‘ President Bush issued a statement hailing Bradley as one of the most accomplished journalists of our time.‘‘ Perhaps only once did his subject get the best of him: In a perfectly staged joke, Muhummad Ali pretended to doze off in mid–interview, then swatted at Bradley in his sleep.‘‘ For one rare moment before Ali began laughing, Bradley lost his cool.