Damaging

//ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ//

"Damaging" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Pollution is damaging our earth.

He managed to avoid damaging my reputation by dropping a hint.

Environmentally damaging projects should be abandoned systematically.

Football is a brain damaging sport for a brain damaged people.

Accelerating climate change has caused serious impacts. Higher temperatures and extreme weather events are damaging food production, rising sea levels and more damaging storms are putting our coastal cities increasingly at risk and the impacts of climate change are already harming economies around the world, including those of the United States and China. These developments urgently require enhanced actions to tackle the challenge.

Someone smashed into the back of Tom's car while he was towing his trailer, writing off the trailer and damaging the car.

This can be extremely damaging.

Tom is damaging his reputation.

Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.

Urban sprawl is environmentally damaging.

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One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.

Heatwaves are especially damaging to children, as they are less able to regulate their body temperature compared to adults, the statement said, adding that the more heatwaves children are exposed to, the greater the chance of health problems including chronic respiratory conditions, asthma, and cardiovascular diseases.

That immortal creature had gone over the proofs with great pains — had of course taken out the stiflings — hard-plungings, lungeings, and other convulsions — and had also taken out her weakenings and damagings of her own effects.

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