damnation
Example Sentences
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It’s a song about a ne’er-do-well who can’t help messing up, and Mr. Kahan wishes the best for him—hoping his greatest fears are earthly threats like personal safety and cancer and not eternal damnation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 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
Then there’s the lone tear that Denzel Washington releases as he is whipped in “Glory”: Two centuries of exploitation in a rivulet of damnation.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2022
The daughters march behind her, four girls compressed in bodies as tight as bowstrings, each one tensed to fire off a woman’s heart on a different path to glory or damnation.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing damnation
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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