DOOM in a Sentence

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102 example sentences for DOOM, such as:

1. Imprisoned they await their doom.
2. People sent the criminal to his doom.
3. A sense of doom hung over the entire country.
4. The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment.
5. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOOM
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doom
 n.  judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation
Classic Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1  Most does good Aeneas inly wail the loss now of valiant Orontes, now of Amycus, the cruel doom of Lycus, of brave Gyas, and brave Cloanthus.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
2  Above all the hapless Phoenician, victim to coming doom, cannot satiate her soul, but, stirred alike by the boy and the gifts, she gazes and takes fire.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
3  Even then Cassandra opens her lips to the coming doom, lips at a god's bidding never believed by the Trojans.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
4  Thus lord Aeneas with all attent retold alone the divine doom and the history of his goings.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
5  Anna, I will confess it; since Sychaeus mine husband met his piteous doom, and our household was shattered by a brother's murder, he only hath touched mine heart and stirred the balance of my soul.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
6  Then indeed, hapless and dismayed by doom, Dido prays for death, and is weary of gazing on the arch of heaven.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
7  Yet Aeneas, dismayed by her cruel doom, follows her far on her way with pitying tears.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
8  But me my fate and the Laconian woman's murderous guilt thus dragged down to doom; these are the records of her leaving.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
9  Imprisoned they await their doom.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
10  Seek not to be told that doom, that fashion of fortune wherein they are sunk.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
11  In no wise am I dismayed by those divine oracles of doom the Phrygians insolently advance.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
12  And now no rumour of the dreadful loss, but a surer messenger flies to Aeneas, telling him his troops are on the thin edge of doom; it is time to succour the routed Teucrians.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
13  But since bitter doom is upon her, up, glide from heaven, O Nymph, and seek the Latin borders, where under evil omen they join in baleful battle.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
14  Then Arruns, due to his doom, circles in advance of fleet Camilla with artful javelin, and tries how fortune may be easiest.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
15  Now I see him joining battle with unequal fates, and the day of doom and deadly force draws nigh.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  People sent the criminal to his doom.
2  He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom; for he had not the shadow of a doubt that this entire hubbub was about him.
3  We don't know if we're going down to the ground floor or to the basement or whether the entire lift shaft is empty and we're plunging to our doom.
4  He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom.
5  The crowd jeered preacher's apocalyptic predictions of doom at the street.
6  A sense of doom hung over the entire country.
7  Fuel shortages spelt the doom of such huge gas-guzzling cars.
8  I fancy that he made a miscalculation, and if we had not been there, his doom would none the less have been sealed.
9  In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed.
10  In retrospect, I think my marriage was doomed from the beginning.
11  The outside world is full of danger, but here is no challenge of life, is doomed to no applause.
12  Any attempts to bring under the mass movement for civil rights are doomed to failure.
13  The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment.
14  The plan was doomed to fail by their refusal to give it any financial support.
15  Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.