How to Use damning in a Sentence

damning

adjective
  • Most damning may be that the film is just not very scary.
    — Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Most damning, both complain, the army isn’t open enough to new ideas.
    — Tamar Jacoby, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • An even more damning nod to O’Neal’s point?
    — James Jackson, New York Times, 20 June 2026
  • But even more damning are critiques of this framing from the left.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025
  • With that said, the overall dearth of humor is a more damning sin.
    — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The results of past damning audits have been known for years.
    — Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The piece later went back up, with a far less damning headline.
    — Azam Ahmed, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2017
  • But by that point, the federal case had grown even more damning for him.
    — Steve Belanger, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Forbes doesn’t like to see rich people portrayed in such a damning way.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Even more damning are Newsom’s own words.
    — John Moorlach, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
  • And there could hardly be a more damning indictment of them than that.
    — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 15 Jan. 2021
  • That can be either read as damning with faint praise, or seen as a small victory of sorts.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
  • The lawsuit, which is 55 pages long, includes lots of damning claims.
    — Kurt Wagner, Recode, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Of all of these concerns, the lack of a second measurement is the most damning.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2017
  • As the trial enters its fifth week, here are the most damning witnesses so far.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 June 2025
  • Some of the most damning evidence is where Laci and her unborn child were found.
    — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 1 May 2021
  • The most damning points of protest were not the planes trailing banners, or the chants, or the voices raised in anger.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2018
  • To fail to do so is foolish, reckless and damning for their children’s life and future.
    — Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Yet Google’s own tests paint a no less damning picture, the reporting notes.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Those texts would become damning evidence in the case against Edgar.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Even more damning, authorities say that traces of Jamie's blood were found on the gun.
    — CBS News, 9 Apr. 2022
  • But this stumble felt more personal, more damning.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The reality is more structural, and in some ways more damning.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 June 2026
  • The story that Meija tells is also quite damning.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 June 2026
  • While these truths are compelling and damning, the way they’re revealed in the series doesn’t quite measure up.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 18 June 2025
  • This remains one of the most damning pieces of evidence in the Epstein case.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But the most damning figure was the one that offered the Retrievers the least hope.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • But perhaps more damning than all this was the fans voting with their feet when the third goal in, heading to the exits en masse.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2026
  • And that, perhaps more than any single finding, is the most damning conclusion of all.
    — Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • On the road for eight months listening to the victims, Salazar came back with a damning report.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 9 Mar. 2025

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