Example sentences for: detriment

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

  • And the topic of the roundtable was in line with other articles we have published highlighting the many ways in which medicine has become tightly entangled with industry, to the great detriment of patients [7–9].

  • This idea that autistic brains are developing at warp speed, to their detriment, fits intriguingly well with what is known about treatment of autism—the earlier and more intense behavioral therapy an autistic child receives, the better the outcome will be.

  • A sidebar castigates the Clinton administration for championing the interests of drug companies to the detriment of public health by trying to prevent the sale of generic substitutes in developing nations.

  • Schools are focusing their curricula on exams to the detriment of long-term learning.

  • 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.


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