How to Use damning in a Sentence

damning

adjective

• 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
• More damning: 94% of Democrats under 30 want somebody else.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 July 2022
• And, to be clear, these are some extremely damning critiques.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 12 Sep. 2024
• And her failure simply to tell us is far more damning than her attempt to let Jussie Smollett slide.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2020
• Even more damning, perhaps, is the praise Reagan has gotten from Democrats in recent years.
  — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2020
• But the findings were damning for Snyder, who will have to pay the highest fine in NFL history as a parting gift.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• The mayor uses all the tools at his disposal to thwart the release of his brother’s damning report.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• Their damning accounts will be heard in the Senate and by the public, whether in video clips or in transcripts that the managers quote, and their words should resonate.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2020
• The Politics of the 2024 Election First, the submission is thorough and damning.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 3 Oct. 2024
• In the film, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2016, this sociopolitical portrait is made all the more damning by simple acts of kindness from characters with the least to give.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
• Police discovered a storage unit in Seattle that belonged to Alcala, filled with damning evidence and trophies of his kills.
  — Barry Levitt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024