Example Sentences
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When Mr. Marx acclaims “Old Town Road” as an “incredible homegrown feat,” he praises what he damns elsewhere as the second sickness of our age.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Sand is essential for constructing buildings, roads, hydroelectric damns and solar panels.
From BBC • Sep. 5, 2023
Over five sections, this tear-splattered score mourns and damns, and declares where in the past Adams might have simply observed.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2023
Stone appears to give neither of these damns, opting for an approach that forgoes fidelity in favor of an aggressive examination of the internal and external forces laying siege to Lucia’s sanity.
From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2022
Richmond quarrels with Durham, Melbourne damns him, and the rest hate him.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Reeve, Henry
