How to Use damning in a Sentence

damning

adjective
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  • That made what came next feel important, damning, and true.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • House Democrats have described his nine-plus hours of testimony this month as among the most damning to Trump so far.
    — NBC News, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The surveillance footage was damning, though, prosecutors said.
    — Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
  • In hindsight, clips of guests and Combs himself discussing his parties are, indeed, damning and unsettling to watch.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 31 Oct. 2024
  • For the third time in eleven years, Newcastle will likely be relegated, a damning indictment of the failures upstairs.
    — SI.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Neither damning nor satiric, W. is oddly wistful, almost regretful — rare sentiments in a Stone film.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Trump also believes that the allegations about him are not nearly as damning as they have been portrayed and that disclosing them will undercut the impeachment drive, people close to the president said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Its technical committee compiled a damning report in the summer, suggesting that the new acquisitions not only haven’t made a putative first team any stronger but haven’t even strengthened the squad.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • And, of course, the most damning stat: 0-10 as a starter (with three more losses in relief).
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Her last mistake, the final ‘cut’, is the most damning.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 18 June 2024
  • Forbes doesn’t like to see rich people portrayed in such a damning way.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The data about those behind the camera is even more damning.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Some of the most damning evidence is where Laci and her unborn child were found.
    — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 1 May 2021
  • Even more damning, authorities say that traces of Jamie's blood were found on the gun.
    — CBS News, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Those banners fall from the rafters, with damning numbers for all to see, and the actors leave the stage without a curtain call.
    — Chris Vognar, Chron, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The charges Trump is facing are likely going to be damning.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
  • And there could hardly be a more damning indictment of them than that.
    — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 15 Jan. 2021
  • England was split clean in two this decade, the damning and beleaguered on one side, the acutely aware on the other.
    — Matt Wilkinson, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2019
  • That can be either read as damning with faint praise, or seen as a small victory of sorts.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
  • Tim Walz [archival audio]: That is a damning non-answer.
    — Leah Feiger, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
  • When The Times’ report came out, this last revelation was seen by many as the most damning.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Shortly after that, Bashir showed the earl a second set of bank statements that were even more damning.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2022
  • And say, again and again, the most damning thing of all: that Republicans want 13-year-old rape victims to be forced to have those children.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2022
  • But maybe the most damning evidence against Yazeed comes from Antwain Fisher.
    — James Brown, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Even more damning was a text Nikki sent a friend six weeks earlier.
    — Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The conduct of the trials, their fairness, and their possibly damning verdicts will be at the center of the election.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2023
  • But the most damning moment for the Jets’ defense came in the third quarter — and really, for almost the length of the period.
    — Dennis Waszak Jr., courant.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • There is no discussion about what Trump said in the boardroom, about how the damning evidence was caught on tape.
    — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
  • The problem for Visa’s would-be assailants is that allegedly damning stories like this one are the undoing of the case itself.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Would this psycho’s plan still count as murder, or because this victim had already made up her mind to die, is there some less damning word for it?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024

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