How to Use damning in a Sentence

damning

adjective
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • More damning: 94% of Democrats under 30 want somebody else.
    — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 July 2022
  • 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
  • These tales are damning, but is the Bunker 15 business model really on the same level?
    — Christopher Null, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
  • As the settlement crossed the wire, Bauer released a video talking about the ordeal and revealed damning messages from the woman to her friends.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • And Jane Farrell, the longtime town clerk here, scoffed at the notion with straight talk that was both economical and damning.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • But there is no guarantee that even a damning verdict will have much effect on Gaetz.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The most damning witness in the case may have been Summers himself, who recorded videos confessing to the crime that were played for jurors in court.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The case against the music-streaming industry is as damning as ever.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • The report paints a damning picture of the archdiocese, which is the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the country and spans much of Maryland.
    — Lea Skene, Brian Witte and Sarah Brumfield, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The damning ruling has left the Palestinians and our allies around the world feeling vindicated – to a point.
    — Iman Jodeh, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The results were damning: Wirecard had been fudging its numbers.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Here’s a thread of the most damning evidence against Johnny, most of which was suppressed or ignored by social media.
    — Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Yet the most damning moments of the season are part of the historical record and not a product of Morgan’s imagination.
    — Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The two settled their legal dispute earlier this week, and the pitcher released damning messages from Hill to her friends.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Perhaps the most damning claim in the entire nearly 6-hour long series is that William bullied Harry out of the royal family.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Even by soap-opera standards, Dabate couldn't have predicted the clue cops say was most damning: Connie's Fitbit data.
    — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 11 May 2022
  • So four fairly damning conclusions about the Department that some experts say has been going on for years, if not decades.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 June 2023
  • These revelations are the most damning to rattle the Murdoch media empire since the phone hacking scandal in Britain more than a decade ago.
    — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The transcripts were both damning and eye-opening for Murdoch, according to Stelter.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Those documents may now serve as damning evidence of an attempt to defraud the United States.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
  • Huobi and Sun have denied there is anything wrong, but Cochran, who is a credible figure in the crypto world, cites on-chain data to make a damning case against the exchange.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Around the time Garg returned from a temporary leave of absence at the beginning of last year, stories about old, damning lawsuits resurfaced.
    — Byjessica Mathews, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023

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