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
Its armchair psychology makes for queasy viewing, a conflation of diagnosis and damnation.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
Man wanted t’ know why ’n’ he fell from light t’ darkness, from love t’ damnation, from blessedness t’ shame.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing damnation
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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