How to Use damage control in a Sentence

damage control

noun
  • Quinn has some damage control to do in the short term.
    — Mike Sando, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • But so much for damage control.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Deen tried to do damage control.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Both are now in damage control.
    — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • There was no need to address that or do damage control.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Brown said the law firm wasn’t being brought in for damage control.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Instead, the bank is in damage control mode once again after a bizarre few weeks.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Asia, 1 Nov. 2024
  • That led Gove and her team to spend a lot of time on damage control this summer.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • That shift from damage control to partnership kept me on board.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The lawyer will deal with damage control, including the press, but all leaks seem to be patched.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Hewitt has done a good job of damage control in last two innings but needs a big hit to get back in this.
    — Ben Thomas | [email protected], al, 21 May 2022
  • Yet most of the party is either in hiding or in damage control.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The best thing to do now is to attempt to damage control rather than stirring the pot further.
    — Kyle Thomas, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Build shade ranges with intention, not as damage control.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Be ready to do some diplomatic damage control.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Couple of bleeders, hit batter, damage control to keep it at the two.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
  • For Fritz, a lot of spring and early summer is about damage control.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Merrill has spent the hours since the op-ed published doing damage control.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
  • Get some more sleep, then get a good retinol prescription from your doctor to do some damage control.
    — Adam Hurly, GQ, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Even Blizzard’s attempt at damage control blew up in its face.
    — Todd Martensgame Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2022
  • With an election looming, Labour has tried to do damage control.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 13 Nov. 2019
  • In season 2, the scientists were in over their heads in damage control mode.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Some are playing at damage control, trying to train native predators to avoid the taste of toads.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2011
  • Right now, Petro is in damage control mode trying to isolate the issue around his son.
    — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
  • And part of that damage control looked like trying to befriend Keanu a little bit.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The Patriots have spent too much time this season in damage control.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2019
  • In that spiral, my focus narrowed to damage control.
    — Adrianne Wright, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • And that’s even with Square Enix trying to do review score damage control.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • For Facebook, that damage control strategy worked for much of its young life.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
  • And now, more than ever, students don’t need a campus-wide email that makes a poor attempt at damage control.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018

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