Example Sentences

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Frank observed: “His opponents always ended up causing more harm to themselves, even though they thought they were damaging this ascending figure with their slander.”

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2024

Speaking at the ceremony, Hun Manet said the old airport was located too close to the Angkor temples and it was feared that vibrations from passing flights were damaging their foundations.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2023

She also accused Armenia of making "unacceptable and harmful" statements that were damaging to the prospects for a peace settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

From Reuters • Sep. 13, 2023

Several people close to Mr. Trump and his team privately acknowledged the facts in the case were damaging.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2023

Farmers were wont to stand up poles in their meadows and set steel traps on the top of them to catch the hen hawks that came for the meadow mice which were damaging their meadows.

From My Boyhood by Burroughs, John