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How to use doom in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Doom means destiny, especially terrible. Example: “They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.”

Examples of doom by meaning

nounDestiny, especially terrible.

  • "When should I expect him?" Roy said, resigned to his doom.2007, Billy Lee Brammer, “Fustian Days: Book One: Sonic Goddam Boom”, in Southwest Review, volume 92, number 4, page 495
  • You cannot escape your doom.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Virmire
  • Your doom is sealed."2009 December 11, Karen Gormandy, “Robin Hood”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 59, number 8, page 4

nounAn undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.

  • After all, nothing about the tanks or the process had been resolved; an air of doom still hung undisturbed over the project.2004, Arthur Miller, “The Turpentine Still”, in Southwest Review, volume 89, number 4, page 479
  • His arrival might spell doom for Rodney Harrison.2009 April 27, Nate Davis, “After Lions^ gamble, lots of big men tapped”, in USA Today, Sports, page 7C

nounDread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.

  • Doom settled like a heavy stone in her chest.2006, Sophie Jordan, Once upon a wedding night
  • Feeling doom, as we learned in the beautiful folk language of blacks who knew the truth of it, began with a single unexpected oddity — a redbird out of season, hail out of cloudless skies, dogs cowering under the house2007, Terry Kay with William J. Scheick, The Year the Lights Came on, page 204
  • I'm taking medications every day; never thinking I would be spiraling into nothing but a nightmare that made me feel doom.2008, Beverly Fincham, Real Life Freedom, page 25

nounA judgment or decision.

  • Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.1977, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, page 88

nounDeath.

  • They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
  • The engines were rumbling, missing every now and then, and Rachel leaned back in her seat, prepared to meet her doom somewhere over the Pacific.2009, Anne Kristin Stuart, Tangled lies

verbTo pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.

  • a criminal doomed to death
  • There was certainly plenty of badass Arya before and after—more on that soon—but here was Arya the living, breathing human, outnumbered and petrified of making the one slight wrong move that would doom her.2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived...

verbTo be extremely pessimistic about something.

  • Every time I see people dooming over North America I just assume its because they've never seen the parts of it that look like this2023 September 14, @alanthefisher, X (post), archived from the original on 07 May 2026
  • You can tell why Democrats were dooming like two months ago2024 September 17, @USA_Polling, X (post), archived from the original on 07 May 2026
  • Earlier today I wanted to doom about Gemini 3.1 Pro completely failing ARC-AGI-3.2026 February 20, @scaling01, X (post), archived from the original on 07 May 2026

More sentences with doom

  • If we fail to absorb the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat them.From the entry absorb
  • Lying, hiding one's true feelings, and having affairs are typical symptoms of a doomed marriage.From the entry symptom
  • "It's a sign of the end of the world," the doom prophet said.From the entry sign
  • The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.From the entry unhappy
  • The sirens were seductresses who lured many sailors to their doom.From the entry seductress
  • All our fears have come to pass: we are doomed but have nothing left to fear.From the entry fears
  • The whole operation was jerrybuilt from the beginning, and thus was doomed to failure.From the entry jerrybuilt
  • His sister was all doom and gloom after she lost the part.From the entry doom and gloom
  • Trying to expand the business into the Middle East was doomed to failure. In retrospect, we shouldn't have bothered.From the entry in retrospect
  • The economic forecast contained the usual doom and gloom.From the entry doom and gloom
  • Oh god! What have I done? I’ve doomed us all!From the entry what has someone done
  • Doom, Quake, and Duke Nukem 3D are boomer shooters.From the entry boomer shooter
  • I'm off to meet my doom.From the entry meet one's doom
  • Philosophers of doom tend to get hung up on elaborate sci-fi-inflected hypotheticals.2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 45. From the entry hypothetical
  • The rise of mobile shopping has also made doom spending almost as easy as doomscrolling.2023 November 30, Lakshmi Varanasi, “Shoppers are worried about the economy so they're 'doom spending' to make themselves feel better”, in…. From the entry doom spending
  • For some experts, their P(doom) is AI taking over a power grid.2023 May 30, Bobby Allyn, “Mitigating the risk of AI should be a global priority, open letter says”, in NPR. From the entry p(doom)
  • For others, their P(doom) is AI leading to mass job loss.2023 May 30, Bobby Allyn, “Mitigating the risk of AI should be a global priority, open letter says”, in NPR. From the entry p(doom)
  • But like Oedipus and Croesus before him, Macbeth missolves the riddles from the future, charging into doom.2022, Angus Fletcher, Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories, page 87. From the entry missolve
  • Strangelove type of situation when they discover mankind’s impending doom, and team up with Dr.2021 December 7, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up”, in…. From the entry impending
  • Britain is caught in a Covid doom loop, the pattern of which is becoming depressingly familiar.2021 December 16, Larry Elliott, “Britain must find a new way out of its Covid doom loop”, in The Guardian. From the entry doom loop
  • In blithely demanding that America tavernize itself, the king ultimately sowed the seeds of his own doom.2016, Steven Grasse, Colonial Spirits: A Toast to Our Drunken History. From the entry tavernize
  • But now that you understand the truth, you tremble and forecry a thousand dooms.2014, Michael Boatman, Last God Standing. From the entry forecry
  • If the world around them still existed, or had been consumed in a fiery hellstorm of doom.2014, Maisey Yates, Unbroken, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Sensation, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry hellstorm
  • But it’s doomed, alas, like all attempts to hypnotise the play-goer with twiddlesome tricks.2012, Lloyd Evans, There will be blood. From the entry twiddlesome

Meaning of doom

  1. noun Destiny, especially terrible.
  2. noun An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
  3. noun Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.

Full definition of doom

Questions about doom in a sentence

How do you use doom in a sentence?
Doom is used as a noun and verb. For example: “They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.”
What is a short sentence with doom?
“Your doom is sealed."”
What does doom mean?
Doom means destiny, especially terrible.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: doom (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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