How to Use damning in a Sentence

damning

adjective

• Their scenes together are some of the funniest - and most damning - in the series.
  — Meredith Blake, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• England's struggles against the bigger sides have highlighted this damning fact, even on the back of victory.
  — SI.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• The fact that Silva's side have scored just one goal is truly damning, especially when the team is filled with top level talent.
  — SI.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• The way Piper eventually just slipped back into a version of her old life was one of the most damning things the show could have said about structural inequality.
  — Emily Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 7 Aug. 2019
• When change does come someday, every life lost while our leaders stood by and did nothing will be a damning indictment: of Cory Gardner, and of his whole generation.
  — Ian Silverii, The Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2019
• Three years later, the Navy’s Sea Dragon helicopters, which stream cables that dislodge mines moored to the ocean floor, came under damning scrutiny.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2019
• Including Vitone’s work here alongside, say, Hofer’s, with its divisive class implications, seems damning indeed.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• 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
• That made what came next feel important, damning, and true.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• 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
• House Democrats have described his nine-plus hours of testimony this month as among the most damning to Trump so far.
  — NBC News, 28 Oct. 2019
• 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
• The problem for Visa’s would-be assailants is that allegedly damning stories like this one are the undoing of the case itself.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• In hindsight, clips of guests and Combs himself discussing his parties are, indeed, damning and unsettling to watch.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024