Sample Sentences for
detrimental
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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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    And if they do, they'll learn things that could prove detrimental to someone in your position.†  (source)
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    I did not mean to the detriment of profitability.†  (source)
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    It might also raise a hundred other questions, some of which could prove detrimental.†  (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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    I worry that your father's blustering about Erudite has been to your detriment.†  (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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    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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    But that name turned out to be a detriment rather than an asset to me.†  (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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    It's his only detriment.†  (source)
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    The key is to set up some rules: which combinations of motion vectors are "healthy" and "beneficial," and which combinations are "detrimental" and "harmful."†  (source)
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