How to Use doom in a Sentence

doom

1 of 2 noun
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  • The papers are filled with stories of gloom and doom.
  • No, the four have come with a prophecy of doom on their breath.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Because the description of Cordelia and the scenes were the world-weary, kind of doom and gloom.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Adding to the ambiance of doom was that the dark room had all the appeal of a haunted house.
    — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The concept of the doom loop took off in the past year on the heels of research from Van Nieuwerburgh.
    — Rachel Siegel, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The closure of a Whole Foods Market downtown was part of the doom loop.
    — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • And yet the story about Boston’s cabs is not all doom and gloom.
    — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The key to getting ahead of this impending doom is to niche down.
    — Dan Serard, Rolling Stone, 19 Jan. 2023
  • That being said, this year so far has been not all doom and gloom.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Even without that, though, the sense of Frank’s doom is baked in from that first melody onward.
    — Vulture, 16 Mar. 2023
  • But all the research makes clear the doom loop is not inevitable anywhere.
    — Rachel Siegel, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • This is where the feeling of doom started building in my gut.
    — Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
  • With all that said, there’s plenty of reasons to believe that the doom is overblown.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • One agent told me that despite the doom and gloom of the industry, their clients have had a growth year.
    — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Small companies in the U.K. just got some good news amid all the recent doom and gloom.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Hunter Doohan, 29, takes on the role of Galpin, whose down-to-earth vibe is a stark contrast to Wednesday's doom and gloom.
    — Karli Bendlin, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Poor shooting dooms Lakers The Lakers took 30 three-point shots and made just four of them.
    — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Against all odds and doom and gloom scenarios, Ukraine did not fall.
    — Quartz, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The same facts would likewise spell the doom of practically the entire crew of 800.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • Advertisement Then came the headlines about a city in a doom loop.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But, for once, the Warriors locker room wasn’t consumed by aches, pains, doom or gloom.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2024
  • That's good news for season 2 — and, maybe, the doom Charlie chooses for herself.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The message of prophets of democratic doom can sound over-the-top, but to dismiss it, experts say, would be naive.
    — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2022
  • But in 2016, the United States elected a politician whose campaign was premised on doom and gloom.
    — Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • In the past 15 years, that would’ve doomed the Vols as hometown optimism shifts to impending doom.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Do weekends even exist in our universe of 24-hour doom scrolling?
    — Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Biden is of an era that came well before anyone could define doom-scrolling.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Now that the doom and gloom is out of the way, the Rangers are still leading the AL West and, at this juncture, are five weeks away from their first playoff berth since 2016.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The 43-year-old South Carolina native’s two-month doom spiral had been for nothing.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Some version of this doom loop has played out in Hong Kong’s nightlife scene ever since the pandemic, when many music venues closed never to reopen.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
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doom

2 of 2 verb
  • A criminal record will doom your chances of becoming a politician.
  • This is not to say that the points markets are doomed to fail, far from it.
    — Sean Stein Smith, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Free at last:A 132-year sentence doomed him to die in prison.
    — Elissa Maudlin, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Aug. 2023
  • With a 132-year sentence, he was doomed to die in prison.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • While those are good reasons to speed up a launch, the look of this app may have doomed it from the start.
    — Jody Serrano / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The small-time thinkers of the faculty won the day, but probably doomed BSC in the process.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But we’re not doomed — there are ways to hold stiffness at bay.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
  • None of which means that all AI search is legally doomed.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 16 Feb. 2023
  • That could doom the state’s plan to fight climate change with the help of nature.
    — Maya L. Kapoor / High Country News, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Two crucial turnovers in the second half doomed the Ravens.
    — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • So if a single chick or duckling is brought home, it's doomed from the start.
    — David Paone, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Two losses will no longer doom any team’s chances in the 12-team system.
    — Mike Rodak | [email protected], al, 20 Feb. 2023
  • We were doomed from the start, and our mutual masochistic ways should have been the first clue.
    — Heather Weingold, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
  • That action alone did not doom the project since the House also passed a stand-alone bill.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • As the Ravens and their fans are all too aware, one unlucky play can doom a player’s season.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 10 Sep. 2023
  • But like in the great Herman Melville novel, the pursuit of the great white whale might end up dooming the voyage, not the whale.
    — John Shu, National Review, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Will Christie be able to unlock all her family’s secrets and escape the curse that has doomed so many over the years?
    — Mike Rose, cleveland, 29 July 2023
  • Goldman couldn’t pull off the deal and a bank run in the wake of that offering effectively doomed SVB.
    — Sridhar Natarajan, Fortune, 4 May 2023
  • That more or less dooms his efforts from the start, even with computer vision.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Leaders' arrogance and envy doomed the Pac-12 What's changed the most?
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the team payroll remains a point of pride for John Fisher’s banker, and this season’s team is doomed.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2023
  • His loss had many causes, but that episode probably doomed his chances.
    — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2023
  • There is hope for those of us who live (and sleep) in the real world: Getting less than 8 hours of shut-eye a night doesn’t mean you’re doomed to an early grave.
    — Alex Janin, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • But their ability to cast spells comes with a catch: Their family is cursed, and any man loved by an Owens witch is doomed to death.
    — Claudia Guthrie, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Paramount’s lawyers filed a motion on Monday, arguing that the suit is doomed to fail for a host of reasons.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 5 May 2023
  • This column has been saying for a while that the U.S. is not doomed to recession and that inflation may be around for while.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Are you doomed to search for the track, album, or artist on those services manually?
    — Justin Pot, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Kline has spent more than a decade depicting the United States as bankrupt, hopeless, doomed.
    — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition’s wrath.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
  • And while genuflecting before the Reagan myth, Trump could not have been more different—an angry, pessimistic figure who warned that America was doomed and promised a return to a mythic past.
    — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2024

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