How to Use doom in a Sentence
- The papers are filled with stories of gloom and doom.
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The news isn't all doom and gloom, though.
—Dave Parfitt, USA Today, 30 May 2026
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To be sure, things aren’t all doom and gloom.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Dec. 2025
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The mood in clean tech is far from doom and gloom.
—Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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There’s a lot of doom and gloom in the world now.
—Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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The outlook is not all doom and gloom.
—Matt Reardon, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
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What’s gained by indulging our doom?
—Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
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The worst has been living each day with a sense of doom.
—Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
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No, the four have come with a prophecy of doom on their breath.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 1 Feb. 2023
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Yang points to the death of malls as a signal of the doom to come.
—Jeff Mayhugh, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
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That being said, this year so far has been not all doom and gloom.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
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Mistakes spelled doom for the Storm.
—Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2026
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This might all be too doom and gloom for late August.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2025
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None of this means a single bad-smell day signals doom.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2026
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So take his doom-mongering with a pinch of salt.
—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025
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Such predictions of doom go too far.
—Conor Sen, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
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Such predictions of doom go too far.
—Conor Sen, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
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The new ecosystem isn’t all doom and gloom for mid-majors.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2025
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And then there was me—lying in bed, doom-scrolling strangers’ heartbreak.
—Eileen Kelly, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2025
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That feeling of doom is so palpable for all of us.
—Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
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The search for solutions Not all is doom and gloom.
—Omar S Mahmood, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
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This is a club that has endured more than its fair share of doom and gloom in recent times.
—Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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This is where the feeling of doom started building in my gut.
—Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
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The key to getting ahead of this impending doom is to niche down.
—Dan Serard, Rolling Stone, 19 Jan. 2023
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This new reality is not a cause for doom.
—Tamilla Triantoro, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2025
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And yet the story about Boston’s cabs is not all doom and gloom.
—Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
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Their appetites portend our doom.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
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In the meantime at United, the doom loop clicks on and on and on.
—James Horncastle, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
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That can become a doom loop that ends in recession.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 10 Mar. 2026
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Against all odds and doom and gloom scenarios, Ukraine did not fall.
—Quartz, 22 Dec. 2022
- A criminal record will doom your chances of becoming a politician.
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Earth might be doomed, but space was the place.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
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For now, at least, you are doomed to live at screen time.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
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They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
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They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
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They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
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They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
—Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
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They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
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They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
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If people don’t have hope, we’re doomed.
—Stephen Trimble, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
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It’s been that lack of a big hit — or any hit — that’s doomed the team.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 6 July 2026
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But we’re not doomed — there are ways to hold stiffness at bay.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
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But the run from Fry’s bunt doomed the Tigers.
—Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
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The deck is stacked; Millie is doomed.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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This is not to say that the points markets are doomed to fail, far from it.
—Sean Stein Smith, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
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Sadly, most of them are also doomed to fail.
—Shani Harmon, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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All but doomed by six quick runs, the Padres lost 8-2.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
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His tack to obtain oil control is doomed.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2026
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Others say the path forward may not be doomed.
—Alex Sherman,lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
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This isn’t doomed to fail just because the Browns thought of it.
—Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
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Break that theory and we are doomed.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2026
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Are moral and religious quests doomed to cause more harm than good?
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
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But that doesn't mean that every couple on the show is doomed.
—Samantha Highfill, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Feb. 2026
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Sawe having to lead for more than 10 miles should have doomed him.
—Alex Hutchinson, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
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But that doesn’t mean those who fall short of the mark are doomed to a lifetime of work.
—Brian Baker Cfa, Boston Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
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Tunneling through her brain is a worm that doomed both of them to die.
—Jessie Richards, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
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My goodness, are we doomed to be Bucks West?
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
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That could doom the state’s plan to fight climate change with the help of nature.
—Maya L. Kapoor / High Country News, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2023
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So if a single chick or duckling is brought home, it's doomed from the start.
—David Paone, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2023
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That didn’t mean they were doomed, though, no matter what the skeptics said.
—Jay King, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
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