How to Use degrade in a Sentence

degrade

verb

• Scratches on a camera lens will degrade the image.
• The group accuses the company of degrading women in its ads.
• He felt degraded by their remarks.
• Pollution has degraded air quality.
• The hairs, found in 2010, were degraded and DNA testing at the time couldn’t yield results.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 15 July 2023
• By then the fierce winds had degraded to medium-strength breezes.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
• When an egg sits and matures in storage, the white will begin to break down or degrade.
  — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2024
• Hence, the products should still work, but the experience may degrade over time.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 10 Apr. 2023
• If it's degraded... the photoreceptors in the back of the eye could be lost forever.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
• The result did more to degrade Tocqueville than to elevate Louis-Napoleon.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 28 Dec. 2023
• These strikes were meant to disrupt and degrade their ability to conduct these strikes.
  — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
• Heat can stretch out the material and may degrade the fabric.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 4 Mar. 2024
• Fixing the degrading infrastructure and sea wall will run in the tens of millions of dollars, if not more.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• And since each oil is packaged in a dark amber bottle, there’s no need to worry about UV light degrading them over time.
  — Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2023
• That’s because some experts believe it may get degraded during the process of digestion in the GI tract.
  — Kristine Thomason, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2023
• Instead, Bakhmut became a means for both armies to tie up and degrade the other’s forces, so as to exhaust them for future battles.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• The researchers also spoke to parents about their use of degrading language when speaking to children in their care.
  — Elisa Cinelli, Parents, 19 Sep. 2023
• All of that degrades the performance of any circuitry built using the technique.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
• At the gravesite, a health-care provider suddenly let loose on the elderly widower, degrading him about his lack of caring for his wife.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
• Each method is weaponized—almost always against women—to degrade, harass, or cause shame, among other harms.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024
• The best view was right in front of the projector, with the image quality degrading only slightly from very sharp angles.
  — L.a. Hubilla, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
• But the alcohol-rich fuel degrades rapidly and leaves behind slimy deposits in the gas tank, in the carburetor bowl, and in fuel lines.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
• The jumping worms are eating through and degrading Indiana's soil.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2024
• The particles in pigments are bulky and difficult for an immune cell’s enzymes to degrade.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2023
• At high temperatures, these liquid electrolytes start to break down, causing the battery to degrade over the course of just a few hundred charge cycles.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• That’s because the wave nature of light means that some excess light from the host star will always spill out past the coronagraph, degrading the image.
  — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
• The fire was one of several also degrading air quality across the country.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 26 July 2023
• Trump worked hard in each of those instances to degrade and invalidate the process, to treat them as illegitimate in order to blunt the findings.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
• Also important: Blackout curtains are designed to well, block the sun, but overexposure to the sun’s rays can cause the fabric to degrade faster.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2023
• Left unchecked, Al will set in motion a race to the bottom that will degrade the value of our work and prevent us from being fairly compensated for it.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024