Example Sentences

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Jarmond’s easy-way-out decision is dooming the basketball program.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2025

Though her mother takes her side, her father can only see how the situation is dooming their business and, to protect her family, Leanne leaves the community for good.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2015

This seemed like a fairly important piece of the decision—if you’re going to argue in court that a state law is dooming children to second-rate educations, you ought to be able to quantify the problem.

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2014

If it is "of man," then he is dooming future generations to famine and frustration.

From Time Magazine Archive