damaging

How To Use damaging In A Sentence

• A energy absorbing structure is disclosed for the purpose of protecting human occupants of a vehicle from the damaging effects of sudden accelerative or decelerative forces by means of plastic deformation of the structure.
• When mistakes are made a full apology is often less damaging than a grudging admission that events have not gone as planned.
• That is damaging to native fish life and plant life, and contributes to the degradation of fresh waters.
• In the wake of this summit he must rethink these deeply damaging proposals. Times, Sunday Times
• It's also much more expensive to clean up and much more damaging to the proprietor seen as they usually cannot use a room I've just vacated - not until the fumigators have finished anyway.
• Building the proposed new road would be environmentally damaging.
• In low explosives, such as the propellant in a bullet cartridge, the reaction occurs relatively slowly and the pressure isn't as damaging.
• In the long run, persistent current account deficits are difficult and costly to sustain and are damaging to an economy.
• But seeing the actual footage, with the minutes ticking by, may prove more damaging to the White House than all the statistics in the world.
• Its only scourge - heavy lorries - rumbling through its streets, polluting the environment and damaging historic buildings.