dooms
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of dooms
Example Sentences
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Along with various Washington-area groups led by doom’s co-godfather, Scott “Wino” Weinrich, Pentagram eventually began to influence metal musicians around the Beltway and around the world.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2015
No need, really, as doom's never too far away from the Chatsworth estate; best to just wait and see.
From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2012
It is like the continual murmur of doom's own voice.
From Time Magazine Archive
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O ye who stand, this great doom's witnesses, Behold this too, the dark device which bound My sire unhappy to his death,—behold The mesh which trapped his hands, enwound his feet!
From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
The billiard sharp whom any one catches, His doom's extremely hard— He's made to dwell In a dungeon cell On a spot that's always barred.
From Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
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