Examples of doomy in a Sentence
the surging doomy music in the background was an unmistakable sign that things would not end well for the movie's hero
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The runner-up, sanewashing, was doomy, but more of a criticism of how the media handled Trump than of Trump himself.
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Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
Guadagnino encourages our doubts, shooting Maggie in exaggerated horror-movie closeups set to the doomy bass notes and shrieking winds of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
On the one hand, the music nestled alongside the doomy Goth rock of the Cure and Siouxie and the Banshees.
—David Chiu, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
The book is narrated by a woman left to raise Renata, the dull and doomy teen-age daughter of a philandering husband who has abandoned them.
—Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
James joined local band Death, adding free-ranging alto sax solos to its doomy sound derived from the Stooges and the Velvet Underground.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2024
The song begins with a jangly blues guitar lick before kicking into a doomy metal riff that sounds custom built for Osbourne’s voice.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
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Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
Guadagnino encourages our doubts, shooting Maggie in exaggerated horror-movie closeups set to the doomy bass notes and shrieking winds of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
On the one hand, the music nestled alongside the doomy Goth rock of the Cure and Siouxie and the Banshees.
—David Chiu, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
The book is narrated by a woman left to raise Renata, the dull and doomy teen-age daughter of a philandering husband who has abandoned them.
—Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
James joined local band Death, adding free-ranging alto sax solos to its doomy sound derived from the Stooges and the Velvet Underground.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2024
The song begins with a jangly blues guitar lick before kicking into a doomy metal riff that sounds custom built for Osbourne’s voice.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
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“Doomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doomy. Accessed 25 Nov. 2025.
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