Read full poem →Somehow—I don’t know how—a serpent tempted us,
And eat we did, and so were doomed to die;
Whereas before we were meant to live for ever.
Dictionary Entry
To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.
In a Sentence
“a criminal doomed to death”
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Common Phrases
. doomedman doomedcity doomeddoomed seemed
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Poetry examples for “doomed”
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Read full poem →Feast on its pain for ever I) used to thin
His year's doomed hundreds daintily, each month
Thirties and fifties. This time, as I think,
Read full poem →Under the title of "The Doomed City" the initial version of "The City in
the Sea" appeared in the 1831 volume of Poems by Poe: it reappeared as
Read full poem →of people later, I was bowled over with pity and horror and admira-
tion for the astounding doomed little girl/But what I thought was* a
sane person. A sane person, in the twentieth century^ It was as long
Read full poem →But silk and satins rich and rare
Are doomed for Peggy still to wear.
Read full poem →Mercedes is a jungle-lily in a death house.
Mercedes is a doomed star.
Mercedes is a charnel rose.
Read full poem →With mines of unalloyed and stainless thought--
I should have deemed thee doomed to earthly care.
With such an aspect, by his colours blent,
Read full poem →Is Fortune painted truly--blind!
Who doomed thee to be bought or sold,
Has proved too bounteous to be kind.
Read full poem →Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other's way:
Read full poem →And thus to each--which was a woful matter--
To bear what they inflicted Justice doomed them;
For, inasmuch as each might hate the lover,