Example Sentences

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For the BBC, there's no doubt the whole saga has been damaging.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2024

Although the rain has been damaging, it didn’t seem as bad to them as what they experienced five years ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2023

“It has been damaging to me as a person and as a player,” McKenzie said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022

It also created a stigma around renting that I think has been damaging to a lot of people.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2021

At times the lack of harmony between the State Fish and Game Commission and the sportsmen of the state has been damaging to the interests of wild life, and deplorable.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple