doom

Example Sentences

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No, the picture is not entirely doom and gloom — the push for renewable energy is breaking all kinds of records, too, reaching roughly 50% of global energy capacity last year.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

What does that title mean to you as it relates to the impending doom of what we’re all living right now.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

It is not all doom and gloom for Italy, though.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

For now, though, the weakness in bank stocks looks more like a temporary dislocation for some of the big banks and not a harbinger of economic doom and gloom.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

My hopes were all dead—struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë