How to Use detrimental in a Sentence

detrimental

adjective

• It's been detrimental to her growth and to her view on the world.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Dec. 2022
• To have to keep doing that would be detrimental to your health.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 5 May 2022
• No doubt this has been detrimental to my career.
  — Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2026
• So, my conduct was not detrimental to the team.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2026
• The pause thus far has been detrimental to farmers.
  — Deepa Shivaram, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
• This could be detrimental to someone’s health.
  — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 19 Jan. 2026
• So did the first-round bye really prove to be that detrimental?
  — Antonio Morales, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
• And too much practice in one sport can be detrimental to a child’s health and success.
  — Jacob E. Osterhout, New York Times, 21 July 2020
• Too much of anything, even water, can be detrimental to the body.
  — Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Good Housekeeping, 13 Mar. 2021
• Playing with too much emotion can prove detrimental to the team.
  — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 23 Nov. 2022
• That that’s detrimental for their mental health and social skills and all of that stuff.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 June 2022
• So, a pause from the action after that win didn’t seem too detrimental at the time.
  — Charlotte Observer, 10 Nov. 2025
• That means this upcoming week will be even more detrimental, cost-wise.
  — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
• Those who back Ducey argue that tweaks to the process at this point would be detrimental.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2020
• Such gestures can even be detrimental to the healing process.
  — Purbita Saha, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2020
• This will have a detrimental effect on her daughter.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2025
• Researchers are still unsure about how detrimental the blood changes could be to the sharks’ health.
  — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 7 Apr. 2026
• Applying too much mulch can be detrimental to plants.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2026
• Which method of holding the car on a hill is less detrimental to the transmission?
  — Ray Magliozzi, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2018
• Acidic water can be detrimental to fish and other aquatic life in the stream.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 6 Apr. 2023
• Spending too much time on social media can be detrimental to your health.
  — Richard Marini, ExpressNews.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• Of course, there is the school of thought that so many voices, and so many workouts, could be detrimental to growth.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 July 2022
• Even medicines that work for some people can be detrimental for other patients.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 2 Oct. 2020
• That’s not detrimental to their development, to use screen time that way.
  — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• So, why is the decrease in foot traffic detrimental to landlords?
  — Brin Snelling, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• In fact, research shows that even small amounts of light at night may be detrimental to sleep and metabolic health.
  — House Beautiful, 8 Apr. 2023
• But doing so can cause detrimental health effects, Langer said.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 21 Nov. 2023
• Coming back next season would have been detrimental for both parties.
  — Katie Woo, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
• My ignorance of the system was detrimental to my life and has been to so many others just like me.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• Someone told me that leaving a job after eight months was detrimental to my career.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 29 Dec. 2021