Damaging In A Sentence

Definition of Damaging

• Nothing is so damaging to philosophy as to allow itself to be governed by poetry.
• The evidence the board heard was as damaging to the boys as it was bewildering.
• The law has a section in it providing for defacing and damaging the trees or cutting them down.
• He knew that his simple yes and no answers had made the most damaging sort of evidence.
• This damaging blow further demoralized the majority which was eager for the Constitution.
• The strong animal is, as a rule, the least liable to damaging emotion and its consequences.
• His intellectual attacks upon Christian faith were terribly damaging and subversive.
• And it was a damaging blow to his scheme of transferring to England our alliance with France.
• The Phytophthora root disease is damaging chestnut orchards throughout southern Europe.
• I'm told I shall be damaging his position in the place if I don't begin all over again.
• Millicent was half-dazed and perhaps did not reflect that it was possible to draw a damaging inference from her words.
• I have been delighted to find that this success of hers had no damaging effect upon the grand simplicity of her nature.
• In time he must begin with damaging stimulants before he can go on with the interesting pursuits of each day.
• We do not at the present moment run any risk of damaging our prestige or showing signs of weakness.
• He looked to discover how far the pernicious habit of publicity might be damaging to the cause in which he was working.
• Other impressions of equal strength and emotional vividness may have passed without leaving any damaging result.
• They were as men living over a powder magazine which the least spark would explode with thunderous noise and damaging effect.
• On the contrary it would be a damaging precedent, so that others might follow similar acts of audacity.
• There's never been a time yet when a body could produce direct, damaging evidence against him.
• Bud admitted to himself that his only chance was to refute Stelton's damaging inference.
• Yet here we constantly find that damaging things are mentioned about Peter, and things to his credit are not referred to.
• Although only a civil action, the evidence against Bellamy was so damaging that a criminal prosecution was bound to follow.
• And truly if emancipation has really done so much mischief in Jamaica as they claim, it is a most damaging fact.
• Then he straightened up, very white from the humiliation, yet absolutely sure, of course, that nothing damaging could be found upon him.
• Years of hard study and constant mechanical training had kept Ivan safe for a long time from immature and damaging attempts at creative work.
• The result of this, was most damaging to the Trade, sometimes, the sellers had the worst of it, sometimes the buyers.

• It was a pretty damaging indictment.
• This circumstance alone is damaging to the whole story.
• Particularly damaging is the effect of war upon citizens.
• And what true man would risk damaging a wineskin?
• This damaging charge against the classics should not be too readily accepted.
• The modes of initiation are more damaging than custom-house oaths.
• Nothing is so damaging to art as to be made the mere vehicle of reasoning.
• The bad newspaper stops not at publishing the most damaging and unclean story.
• Now, there is nothing more damaging than the witness who proves too much.
• The most cautious cross-examiner will often elicit a damaging answer.
• It was a small sum, but as a mistake was as damaging as $500.
• My having had a watch, he said, was the only damaging feature in the case.
• No, I should endeavour to hit upon some plan for damaging the engines.
• Furthermore, Larkin's direct question was capable of a damaging reply.