Example sentences for: harmful

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

  • McCain has been an ardent supporter of the controversial Child Online Protection Act, which seeks to criminalize Web sites that "knowingly" make harmful material available to minors.

  • Professionals who are increasingly willing to identify situations as harmful aren't necessarily ready to equate them with the sort of abuse and neglect they are legally obliged to report.

  • A surprisingly large number of respondents add that only intentional racial stereotypes are harmful (and, as I say in the original article, I don't think Lucas intended to offend anyone).

  • Defenders call it a "largely episodic collection of great moments that aren't all causally linked in that comforting way we're used to" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). Tom Wolfe, who attacked the book in the literary magazine Biblio on the basis of its title--without having read a word of the manuscript--draws a stinging retort from Kirn in the latest issue of Tin House , in which he writes a lovely parody of a negative review for his own book: "I consider it my duty as the author of this offensive work, to carry even further Wolfe's condemnation in hopes of neutralizing, from the start, a potentially harmful literary contagion."

  • In an editorial titled "A needless, harmful annexation," Ha'aretz attacked Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert for wanting to expand the city's municipal boundaries to the west.


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