How to Use doomy in a Sentence

doomy

adjective
  • This doesn’t need to be a doomy, gloomy point.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Looking for more doomy reading?
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The runner-up, sanewashing, was doomy, but more of a criticism of how the media handled Trump than of Trump himself.
    Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • As the song progresses, more elements—slow-moving filter sweeps, waltzing arpeggios, a deep and doomy bassline—appear and disappear, moving into the fore of the stereo field before corroding and flaking away.
    Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Episode one will see Romesh Ranganathan give advice on staying relevant, while Theroux appears in episode two discussing whether Buxton should be more ‘doomy’ to compete in the modern podcast space.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 4 June 2026
  • Guadagnino encourages our doubts, shooting Maggie in exaggerated horror-movie closeups set to the doomy bass notes and shrieking winds of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025

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