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Example sentences for: detriment

How can you use “detriment” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Schools are focusing their curricula on exams to the detriment of long-term learning.
Having an obviously high opinion of yourself threatens and alarms both peers and superiors, often to your ultimate detriment.
Coverage of political issues too often gels around easy, conflict-based poles, to the detriment of anyone's understanding.
Few, though, can match Santorum in the pursuit of political symbolism to the detriment of substance.
The furor will be over long before the kids are able to understand it (the spotlight would only be harsher if they were older), and the subject itself would either come up or be repressed to everyone's detriment.