Example sentences for: doom

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

  • Now the elevator door opens and Cage arrives at the 35 th floor--and now he and the villain are moving in opposite directions down the corridor, converging on the room where the increasingly frantic girl is being pushed toward certain doom ...

  • But all the while the shadow of doom was creeping nearer and nearer, till came a day when it pulled off its whiskers and pounced.

  • Diaspora Chic ultimately fails not because it promotes national self-destruction--a little less Anglo-conformity won't doom us--but because it promotes national self-deception.

  • Most"yes" voters dismissed the predictions of doom as exaggeration, according to polls conducted on either side of Election Day.

  • Biggest minus: the clunky musical numbers, which "hang like cinder blocks" around the neck of the production (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). Critics also complain that the movie is short on emotional power, partly because "it tries to do too much" and be all things to all audiences (Michael Wilmington, the Chicago Tribune ). (David Edelstein says the film "feels as if it might have been called Indiana Moses and the Temple of Doom ." Click to read the rest of his review in Slate .)


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