Examples of damaging in a Sentence
the damaging effects of the sun on your skin
The storm may produce damaging winds.
He says he has damaging information about the candidate.
The evidence was very damaging to their case.
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The western part of the state, in particular, is crisscrossed with fault systems capable of producing damaging earthquakes, including the Walker Lane Belt, which absorbs a significant portion of the tectonic strain between the Pacific and North American plates.
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Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
That's what makes phone-number leaks so damaging.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Dec. 2025
That’s especially damaging in cancer research, where drug development timelines can stretch well over a decade and depend on multiple rounds of follow-on research.
—Anthony J. Zagotta, Boston Herald, 4 Dec. 2025
Bursts of energy from the sun in the form of solar flares are also a source of such particles and can be dozens of times more energetic, or in extreme cases thousands of times, and therefore more damaging than particles from cosmic ray showers.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 3 Dec. 2025
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Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
That's what makes phone-number leaks so damaging.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Dec. 2025
That’s especially damaging in cancer research, where drug development timelines can stretch well over a decade and depend on multiple rounds of follow-on research.
—Anthony J. Zagotta, Boston Herald, 4 Dec. 2025
Bursts of energy from the sun in the form of solar flares are also a source of such particles and can be dozens of times more energetic, or in extreme cases thousands of times, and therefore more damaging than particles from cosmic ray showers.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 3 Dec. 2025
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“Damaging.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/damaging. Accessed 9 Dec. 2025.
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