Example Sentences

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Pretending like that wasn’t a choice is damning.

From Salon • Nov. 3, 2024

With so much on the line, that assessment is damning.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2023

There’s not a wasted word in that short passage, which is damning because of both what it specifies and what it leads us to infer.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2023

“It is damning that certain intelligence products and threat tips weren’t shared amongst agencies or even within certain agencies.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2023

I am saddened by inappropriate music about which it is damning enough to say that it is not good enough, and not even the best of its authentic kind—folk, pop, quasireligious Broadway show tunes.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez