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Example sentences for "dooming"

Lexicographically close words:
doolies; dooly; doom; doome; doomed; dooms; doomsday; doomsman; doomster; doon
  1. She was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who with all their descendants were the victims of an unrelenting fate, dooming them to destruction.

  2. The sentence of the gods dooming her to such a fate dissolved all engagements, as death itself would have done.

  3. Dooming himself to a sordid seclusion, the king solaced his gloomy leisure with pursuits that had perhaps become habitual during his early detachment from affairs.

  4. For it is Wisdom alone that can recognize wisdom: Folly or Imbecility never can; and that is the fatalest ban it labors under, dooming it to perpetual failure in all things.

  5. There is a payment which Nature rigorously exacts of men, and also of Nations, and this I think when her wrath is sternest, in the shape of dooming you to possess money.

  6. She would not in truth have thought that he had been in earnest in dooming her to eternal separation.

  7. To what a punishment was he not dooming her!

  8. Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears.

  9. The oldest instances of this dooming are those which are set down in Scripture, in the Old Testament.

  10. Macrobius[548] has preserved for us the formula of a solemn devoting or dooming of a city, and of imprecations against her, by devoting her to some hurtful and dangerous demon.

  11. What sense was there in dooming Cain to be a vagabond among men, when there was but one man in the world, and that his father?

  12. There is a record, I believe, still extant in the Florence Archives, dooming this Dante, wheresoever caught, to be burnt alive.

  13. If I had even the happiness to be agreable to her, if she was disengaged from Sir George, my fortune makes it impossible for me to marry her, without reducing her to indigence at home, or dooming her to be an exile in Canada for life.

  14. Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears.

  15. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.

  16. Out of the myth of the Fall sprang the dogma of total depravity, dooming our whole race to hell forever, except those saved by the subsequent artifice of the atonement.

  17. The evil Ahriman insinuated his corruptions among them, broke their primal destiny, and brought death upon them, dooming their material frames to loathsome dissolution, their unclothed spirits to a painful abode in hell.

  18. Even my horror-- Ah, let her witchcraft meet with the just dooming of the king's law!

  19. He has the look which he wears when he sits on the judgment-seat, dooming the luckless offenders.

  20. As it was he did not dare to risk it, for it seemed like dooming Alice to destruction needlessly.

  21. She was the daughter of OEdipus and Jocasta, who, with all their descendants, were the victims of an unrelenting fate, dooming them to destruction.

  22. To-morrow his ferocious voice would be dooming dozens to death in that court with the scarlet hangings.


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