Sample Sentences for
detrimental
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    Lack of sleep is detrimental to performance.
    detrimental = damaging
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    That decision would be detrimental to the interests of my client.
    detrimental = harmful
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    Most persons, owing to causes which I may not have space to hint at, suffer moral detriment from this peculiar mode of life.  (source)
    detriment = harm
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    I did not mean to the detriment of profitability.†  (source)
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    And if they do, they'll learn things that could prove detrimental to someone in your position.†  (source)
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    It is, I suppose, the reaction from the haunting fear which I have had, that this terrible affair and the reopening of his old wound might act detrimentally on Jonathan.†  (source)
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    It's his only detriment.†  (source)
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    It might also raise a hundred other questions, some of which could prove detrimental.†  (source)
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    Clennam thought (and as he thought it, again felt ashamed of himself), was this notion of being disappointed in life, an assertion of station which the bridegroom brought into the family as his property, having already carried it detrimentally into his pursuit?†  (source)
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    Thus did the typewriters clack through the night, until that historic document had been crafted which guaranteed for all Russians freedom of conscience (Article 13), freedom of expression (Article 14), freedom of assembly (Article 15), and freedom to have any of these rights revoked should they be "utlitized to the detriment of the socialist revolution" (Article 23)!†  (source)
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    What's more, they are detrimental to the revolution, so we must oppose them resolutely.†  (source)
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    "It's a love of a bonnet, but I prefer the face inside, for it looks young and happy again," and John kissed the smiling face, to the great detriment of the rosebud under the chin.†  (source)
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    My father was the kind of person who would have wanted us to wear the fancy clothes and to do the macho kind of things like girl hunting—the lifestyle that would have been detrimental to establishing ourselves academically.†  (source)
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