Examples of degraded in a Sentence

many observers deplored the fact that the city's festivities for Mardi Gras had become a degraded, drunken celebration

Recent Examples on the Web The more degraded actual life becomes on earth, the more fervently conservatives will fight to protect potential life in utero. — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 16 July 2022 The rainforest would be converted into degraded open savanna, endangering biodiversity, shifting regional weather patterns and accelerating climate change. — Gabriela Sá Pessoa And Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2022 There have been a lot of reports of misdirected amplexus in super-degraded habitats, and many of them have occurred in recent years. — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 May 2022 Once upon a planet Bunding, an ancient and low-tech building technique, is having a profound impact on degraded land in two disparate places. — Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 July 2022 Its residents face high poverty rates and a largely degraded environment, owing to hundreds of spills every year. — Krystina Shveda, CNN, 25 May 2022 Community members began by restoring soil with the Gregg’s pine – one of the few trees capable of growing in such a degraded environment – and then added native species like the smooth-bark Mexican pine. — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2022 But, even in this degraded environment, a bit of meaning and history can break through occasionally. — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022 These drones are small surveillance UAVs that operate in high-threat, GPS degraded environments. — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2022 See More

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