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

She was chasing records set by the popular fire-and-brimstone evangelist Billy Sunday; where he preached damnation, she preached salvation.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025

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

From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2023

The birthmark of damnation faded, and I could feel the weight of my arms and hear the heave in my breath and I was not talking then, because there was no point.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates