Used in a Sentence

damaged

How to use damaged in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for damaged.

Editorial note

You're not "damaged" because you had a terrible job. This is as common as dirt.

Examples20
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

harmed or injured or spoiled; "I won't buy damaged goods"; "the storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of damaged gathered in one view.

adjective

harmed or injured or spoiled; "I won't buy damaged goods"; "the storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings"

adjective

being unjustly brought into disrepute; "a discredited politician"; "her damaged reputation"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for damaged.

adjective

harmed or injured or spoiled; "I won't buy damaged goods"; "the storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings"

adjective

being unjustly brought into disrepute; "a discredited politician"; "her damaged reputation"

Example sentences

1

You're not "damaged" because you had a terrible job. This is as common as dirt.

2

Even if you pass the PIP, you become damaged goods and can't transfer. It sticks around on your permanent record until you leave.

3

It's tied to single physical devices which can be lost or damaged. This makes them unsuitable for storing savings.

4

They have no job skills, no life skills, they're psychologically damaged. The rate of re-offense isn't high because 'bad people are bad', it's high because we take people in bad situations, and break them further.

5

Broken toys, clothes with holes, dirty shoes, smoke-damaged, water-damaged, and just plain damaged stuff. Ugly nick-nacks, beat up plastic cups, dated books no one wants to read.

6

The rest of us look at crap like 'negging' and see that the whole thing's a tactic to get the emotionally damaged to sleep with the socially stunted.

7

They deserve to have their brands damaged. They didn't do their due diligence in encrypting data going through leased fibers -- they should have had the foresight to realize what a phenomenally bad thing this was.

8

In fact, the White Houses's almost complete non-response to the NSA revelations has damaged their credibility in my mind much moreso than the Healthcare. gov debacle.

9

Proceeding with criminal charges, particularly in a case where no one was hurt and no property was damaged, is completely at the discretion of the DA. This is bullshit and no one should be pleased with this outcome.

10

Bringing it down as fast as humanly possible and loudly so no-one else gets damaged in the meantime is entirely justified in a case like this.

11

How many Amazon shoppers have seen one-star reviews that say, "The package was damaged during shipping. The return was really easy and I got a replacement in two days, but I wanted it for an event that happened before the replacement came."

12

Its clear that all the cases [Salvador] worked on are irreparably damaged, Weeks said. He's already making arrangements to expunge the records of every affected defendant.

13

Hopefully the internet will route around the damaged segment, and the rest of us can continue to enjoy the amazing interactivity it has brought our society.

14

Sony is a damaged brand, they've done lots of terribly stupid stuff but at a minimum they should be given the benefit of the doubt until there is hard proof they did this on purpose. We all know Sony fucked up in the past but that is no reason to automatically assume they did so again without any proof.

15

Results in high churn and damaged credibility, neither of which affects the salesperson's commission check. Last, sales people are typically the least knowledgeable in the organization about the company/product/service they're trying to sell.

16

The Eastern-block dissents hated freedom, and damaged the cause of freedom by stealing/leaking Stasi documents? I could certainly agree that the Stasi is much worse than the UK government, so maybe you could draw a line between a certain level of viciousness of the security state, past which document-theft becomes justified.

17

And a judge can decline to impose an injunction where the costs of doing so would be far out of proportion to the benefit it gives to the harmed party, where the wrongdoing party is not gaining great benefit from the wrong committed, and where the public would be more damaged than helped by such a remedy. What this really amounts to is a victory for common sense.

18

One of the more bizarre twists in the Japanese nuclear story is that a program to develop robots that could remotely work inside damaged nuclear generating stations was canceled out of fear that it would send a message that nuclear power isn't safe.

19

This is not exactly nefarious, even to the severely-damaged-evil-meter version of nefarious which includes "intentionally and with forethought committing the sin of marketing." I have often used work technologies/clients at play and play technologies at work.

20

Modern insulin preparations should be kept at room temperature while in use for up to 30 days -- keeping it refrigerated while in use is contraindicated due to the potential for thermal cycling to result in inaccurate dosing -- and keeping insulin "on ice" is never recommended due to the risk of the insulin being damaged by freezing.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use damaged in a sentence?

You're not "damaged" because you had a terrible job. This is as common as dirt.

What does damaged mean?

harmed or injured or spoiled; "I won't buy damaged goods"; "the storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings"

What part of speech is damaged?

damaged is commonly used as adjective.