damnation

Example Sentences

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Ms. Gage, who teaches American history at Yale, presents the book as an attempt, timed for the semiquincentennial, to improve the contemporary “national historical dialogue, which tends to emphasize veneration or damnation over real understanding.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

RN was regarded as beyond the pale, so the centre-right faced hell and damnation on the few occasions it joined them in a tacit arrangement to keep out the left.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

It’s like a chemical cocktail of frustration, elation, inspiration, damnation — everything with an “-ation” on it.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2023

The Puritans who colonized New England believed that laziness led to damnation.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2022

And he tried to find one equally hearty in its pleasures of damnation, but he was smoldering so low that he could not keep the tempo up.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt