How to Use damned in a Sentence

damned

adjective

• Some people are damned to always clap on the one and the three.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2020
• And there are still some good deals, new-era Steam Sale be damned.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 22 June 2017
• The laws of physics be damned — giving of yourself builds more of you.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 5 May 2017
• The laws of physics be damned – giving of yourself builds more of you.
  — Carolyn Hax, idahostatesman, 4 May 2017
• Ian had to learn the whole damned catalog, and these new songs.
  — Jonathan Cohen, Variety, 4 Mar. 2022
• That means hills and those hills can be pretty damned steep.
  — Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 7 Dec. 2020
• Think that blinking red light on your dash doesn’t do a damned thing?
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2017
• And there wasn't a damned thing anyone was going to do about it.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 13 June 2020
• And ideals — even those which help keep the republic — be damned.
  — John Kass, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2017
• The difference between the damned and the saved came down to three factors.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
• Leave the banzai racing to Daron Rahlves (who’s damned good at it).
  — Al Saracevic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2018
• Are the words of a young man, already damned, looking for somebody to love.
  — Vulture, 14 Oct. 2022
• It’s just so raw and torturous to write those damned cards.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
• Get the meaning down, errors be damned, then run it through the software.
  — Lisa Wood Shapiro, WIRED, 18 June 2018
• It is said that there are lies, damned lies and statistics.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• Though the shooting got in the way of some of his initial plans, he’ll be damned if anything stops him now.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2022
• But diet be damned – sort of – when his mom is cooking.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
• The Detroit Lions dropped below the .500 mark for the first this season, red-zone woes be damned.
  — Christopher D Thomas, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2017
• Just overpowered the damned thing on the strength of his conviction.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2021
• One groundball to the right side, one damned sacrifice bunt.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2020
• Trying your luck from distance is seen as the final resort, a last refuge for the damned.
  — New York Times, 12 Feb. 2021
• Lyoya’s name was added to a list of such victims that was already far too damned long.
  — Issac Bailey, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
• The guy said our Mazda 6 was outfitted with an i-Loop or e-Loop or some damned thing.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 8 Dec. 2021
• This is either a chorus for the damned — or the sound of pork’s ascendancy.
  — Caitlin Dewey, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• This is either a chorus for the damned — or the sound of pork's ascendancy.
  — Caitlin Dewey, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
• So why not simply launch a crew of small humans, sexes be damned?
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• Or, at the very least, delay the disease long enough to give them many more good years, genetics be damned.
  — Elie Dolgin, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2017
• No, this one, beautiful or damned, felt under the weight of a burden.
  — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 15 Feb. 2018
• The Key to Hell, which the devil Lucifer gives to Morpheus after abandoning his post as ruler of demons and the damned.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• Watching the actress do her damnedest to channel Lucille Ball — to the point of engaging in a vigorous grape stomping scene!
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024