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
• 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
• Threats of eternal damnation were not uncommon, the grand jury found.
  — Mark Scolforo, Fox News, 16 Aug. 2018
• The answer to Barnett's problems lay in wielding her overactive mind as a tool for her own smarts, and not self-damnation.
  — Eve Barlow, GQ, 15 Feb. 2018
• Their battle of faith will only lead in death, destruction and damnation.
  — Houston Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2019
• The praise of his supporters or the predictable damnation of his enemies won’t matter.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 26 Mar. 2020
• The setting for their play is a fictional megachurch where the pastor’s stand on damnation splits the congregation.
  — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 31 Aug. 2017
• What appealed to you about an afterlife that didn’t involve bliss or damnation?
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Here, Hell is turned into a good time to underscore that the threat of eternal damnation has no real power over Lil Nas X.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
• Who would buy a ticket to a Broadway show and chuckle at the eternal damnation of Jewish people other than Jews?
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• Suicide by Proxy In early Modern Europe, suicide was a sin to be punished with eternal damnation.
  — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024