How to Use damnation in a Sentence

damnation

noun
  • The minister spoke about death and damnation.
  • Very much the idea of damnation and sin and prone to believe things like witches.
    Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The punky makeover received praise and damnation in equal measure.
    Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 2 June 2024
  • To stop this witch and save Sam from eternal damnation, Deena and Josh are going to have to go back in time.
    Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 5 July 2021
  • The show maintained a small but mighty fan base, though the viewership wasn't able to save it from damnation.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The dark things in our world and culture and lives today are in fact foretastes of damnation, the beachheads of Hell.
    Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Picard says, before leaving the goo, for the rest of time, to its eternal damnation.
    WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Cates, Brown and Esposito are about to bring damnation and the end of days to your local comic store.
    Will Nevin, NOLA.com, 6 June 2017
  • Berry’s peers had a sense of sin and damnation in common, to the degree that their music might be taken for a form of speaking in tongues.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • Mariko pulls the always-present wooden cross off her neck and is ready to face eternal damnation for ending her own life.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
  • It’s, like, my job here, man. Bosma’s ticket to eternal damnation already is punched.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2018
  • People have no choice in the matter of their salvation or damnation.
    Susan M. Shaw, al, 2 July 2021
  • People have no choice in the matter of their salvation or damnation.
    Susan M. Shaw, The Conversation, 1 July 2021
  • People have no choice in the matter of their salvation or damnation.
    Susan M. Shaw, al, 2 July 2021
  • People have no choice in the matter of their salvation or damnation.
    Susan M. Shaw, al, 2 July 2021
  • People have no choice in the matter of their salvation or damnation.
    Susan M. Shaw, al, 2 July 2021
  • People have no choice in the matter of their salvation or damnation.
    Susan M. Shaw, al, 2 July 2021
  • People have no choice in the matter of their salvation or damnation.
    Susan M. Shaw, al, 2 July 2021
  • People have no choice in the matter of their salvation or damnation.
    Susan M. Shaw, al, 2 July 2021
  • Bliss has always creeped me out, and damnation doesn’t sound very compelling, either.
    Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The intensity through which DMX performed was almost seismic, and the force of his fear of damnation left raw lyrics in its wake.
    Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Granted, belief in the tragedy of eternal damnation is fertile soil.
    Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • We were constantly reminded that the reason to follow the church’s rules was the threat of eternal damnation.
    Time, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Parks also uses desire in damnation of the Black buck stereotype.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • If Hell exists, and souls are condemned to an eternity of damnation and torture, then doesn’t that make God evil?
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Words like faith, damnation, and salvation are not used lightly here.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • In each act, a trio of bluegrass musicians appears at least once to sing about work or damnation or having no place to go.
    Laura Hudson, Wired, 29 Jan. 2020
  • But one evening, Pearson happened to catch a program about the genocide in Rwanda that forced him to question the concept of damnation.
    Andreas Hale, The Root, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The Zesty dipping sauce was heavy on the horseradish, but not compelling enough to save the fries from eternal chicken tender damnation.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Even though his dumb blog has only three readers, Google Face identifies my sodden visage by name, and puts those pictures into the eternal damnation of Google Image search results.
    IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2010

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'damnation.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: