Example Sentences

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Do you realize to what sufferings you are dooming the hearts that love you, and whose happiness is bound up in yours?

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee

"The good father hath no suspicion that these old wretches are dooming him to death," said Ako to Du Gay.

From Heroes of the Middle West The French by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

The modern dragons, it has been said, are dooming "religion and poetry."

From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)