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How to use the word damned in a Sentence?

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The devil and the damned have punishment without pity, misery without mercy, sorrow without succor, crying without comfort, mischief without measure, torments without end and past imagination. John Trapp

JOHN TRAPP (1601-1699)

added by gracesouthern3
7 months ago

We are the people in cheap hotels and tenement housing walking down side alleys talking to ourselves. We are the people the pushers the whores the crackheads the gunrunners the bangers the pimps the homeless the outlaws the crippled the freaks the damned. Drink to us my friends for we are the forgotten.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

At Pre cognicent and intuitive witchcraft there is a state beyond love and hate or light and dark or measure of any kind or language/ description of any kind not even future. It is a still, non moving, non acknowledging, non needing, catatonic existence, a sort of damned place but also enlightened calm state of self.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
1 year ago

The other thing that's notable here [in many of the school shooting cases] is the abusive relationships. Damned if I can figure it out — in this age of sensitivity, of sensitivity toward women and the treatment of women — but almost all of these guys were abusers of their girlfriends. Physical abusers. in a lot of these cases, it was the teachers who put out the alerts, raised the alarms, that there was a problem [with a student] — it was the teacher at [Nikolas] Cruz's school in Parkland who put out the word about the problems.

Bill Bennett

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

oh great, more Really Important People sitting down beside me with their damned mobile phones to screech in LOUD voices condos resale values, great new stock options, frequent flyer miles, who is fucking whom… actually, i think the rest of us are being screwed by these social leeches but god they look good don’t they

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

I'm damned if I did and damned if I didn't when it came to the masks.

Steve Sisolak

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I really feel for the people at The CDC, they're damned if they do, and they're damned if they don't.

Otis Brawley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s unsurprising that NEA leadership is demonizing parents and concerned citizens who've expressed their concerns about the state of America's schools – after all, over the past two years it’s become abundantly clear that union leaders' primary objective is to maintain their iron grip on power –student achievement and welfare be damned, learning loss has disproportionately impacted disadvantaged students, and mental health of students and parents alike have suffered. Yet when individuals try to raise these points, they are smeared as ‘radical’ and ‘extremist’ in an attempt to shame, silence, and marginalize families.

Nicole Neily

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'll be damned if my family, uncles, cousins fought, bled, sacrificed all on foreign beaches to free millions of people being tortured and killed by insane genocidal fascists AS WELL AS trying to keep the rest of the world safe from these evil monsters, only to find some decades later, flags bearing Swastikas being planted in American soil, if not eventually American political buildings and agencies!

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

That's something about the political climate we're in. Even if it's out of the realm of anything being discussed in the Congress, people aren't following Congress ; people aren't police experts. They respond to the messages and that's what these groups are putting out into the world, facts be damned.

Sarah Byner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?

Lord Chancellor Thurlow

added by Normando
2 years ago

May the man be damned and never grow fat, Who wears two faces under one hat.

Proverb

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.

Proverb

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

Richard Pryor

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't, right now, we're in constant flux. That's the best word I can find for it.

Oscar Alleyne

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I only have one choice : to do my job, politics be damned.

Cory Booker

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I’ve been treated brutally by the press, but I’ll be damned if I’ll have my audience mistreated.”

Judy Garland

added by regnumveritatis
4 years ago

If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?

Judy Garland

added by regnumveritatis
4 years ago

Zachary Wester says it tests positive for amphetamine, so I guess I'm going to go to jail, it damned sure ain't mine.

Teresa Odom

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need a' middle of the road' approach to save our lives.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

Arthur Hoppe

added by Normando
4 years ago

I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say Jay Inslee need to find a middle-of-the-road approach to save Jay Inslee lives.

New York

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The truth is that not even 10 concerts will make damned Maduro leave office.

Darwin Rendon

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

From my privileged vantage point, I've encountered a lot of extraordinary people with exciting things to say. This is a chance to get those voices heard. We look forward to publishing an unusual mix of new authors, existing works, neglected or under-appreciated masterworks, and translations of people from elsewhere who we think are just too damned brilliant not to be available in English.

Anthony Bourdain

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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