How to Use damnation in a Sentence

damnation

noun
  • The minister spoke about death and damnation.
  • Very much the idea of damnation and sin and prone to believe things like witches.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The punky makeover received praise and damnation in equal measure.
    — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 2 June 2024
  • Words like faith, damnation, and salvation are not used lightly here.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Bliss has always creeped me out, and damnation doesn’t sound very compelling, either.
    — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The show maintained a small but mighty fan base, though the viewership wasn't able to save it from damnation.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • People have no choice in the matter of their salvation or damnation.
    — Susan M. Shaw, The Conversation, 1 July 2021
  • People have no choice in the matter of their salvation or damnation.
    — Susan M. Shaw, al, 2 July 2021
  • Picard says, before leaving the goo, for the rest of time, to its eternal damnation.
    — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
  • What appealed to you about an afterlife that didn’t involve bliss or damnation?
    — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Their battle of faith will only lead in death, destruction and damnation.
    — Houston Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Granted, belief in the tragedy of eternal damnation is fertile soil.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Threats of eternal damnation were not uncommon, the grand jury found.
    — Mark Scolforo, Fox News, 16 Aug. 2018
  • Mariko pulls the always-present wooden cross off her neck and is ready to face eternal damnation for ending her own life.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Theology and damnation and the light of the world barely stand a chance against a good four-minute visit to camp.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Aug. 2025
  • In each act, a trio of bluegrass musicians appears at least once to sing about work or damnation or having no place to go.
    — Laura Hudson, Wired, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Parks also uses desire in damnation of the Black buck stereotype.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The dark things in our world and culture and lives today are in fact foretastes of damnation, the beachheads of Hell.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 5 Nov. 2019
  • This is not death and damnation structurally for the auto industry.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
  • This is not death and damnation structurally for the auto industry.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2019
  • Berry’s peers had a sense of sin and damnation in common, to the degree that their music might be taken for a form of speaking in tongues.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • The praise of his supporters or the predictable damnation of his enemies won’t matter.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 26 Mar. 2020
  • To stop this witch and save Sam from eternal damnation, Deena and Josh are going to have to go back in time.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 5 July 2021
  • But the soul-sucking damnation of a never-ending networking happy hour.
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 6 June 2022
  • We were constantly reminded that the reason to follow the church’s rules was the threat of eternal damnation.
    — Time, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The setting for their play is a fictional megachurch where the pastor’s stand on damnation splits the congregation.
    — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Cates, Brown and Esposito are about to bring damnation and the end of days to your local comic store.
    — Will Nevin, NOLA.com, 6 June 2017
  • The answer to Barnett's problems lay in wielding her overactive mind as a tool for her own smarts, and not self-damnation.
    — Eve Barlow, GQ, 15 Feb. 2018
  • If Hell exists, and souls are condemned to an eternity of damnation and torture, then doesn’t that make God evil?
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Therefore, those women were able to end their lives while sparing their souls damnation and their families the social stigma of suicide.
    — Mike Miller, EW.com, 28 June 2024

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