How to Use degraded in a Sentence

degraded

adjective

• Some say the biome that rises from the fires will be a degraded, open-canopy forest.
  — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• There’s bits and pieces that are more degraded than other sections.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 26 Nov. 2024
• This new species was found around villages and gardens, as well as in degraded habitats at a mine site.
  — Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
• Three months later, a sea anemone-like polyp rose like a phoenix from the degraded jellyfish.
  — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2016
• Some of the rubber and plastic had become stiff and degraded.
  — Susan Saulny, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
• Healthy plants remove more carbon from the air and return it to the soil than plants growing in degraded soil.
  — Outdoor Life, 14 Oct. 2020
• The park gets a lot of foot traffic—from both humans and dogs—which has caused some areas to become degraded.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2024
• The novel stirred public outrage over the degraded state of the cathedral.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
• Next, the spacewalkers wrested the old, degraded hand from the robot arm.
  — Marcia Dunn, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Part of this new story is addressing the injustices that have brought the forests to such a degraded point.
  — Moira Donovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2022
• Smoke will also lead to degraded air quality.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• The degraded image felt authentic, as if unearthed from the past.
  — Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
• Karangwa say he's now had the change to travel all over the world, to learn and share knowledge about how to restore degraded lands.
  — Andrew Wight, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
• Others had been too badly degraded over the centuries to stand out in satellite photos.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2018
• The lens surface is far too degraded for the polishing compound to rescue it.
  — Michael Austin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2017
• In some cases, saplings died, possibly because of the degraded soil.
  — Sarah Hurtes, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
• When a degraded grassland returns to health, the ground heaves up, as if inhaling with relief.
  — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
• But, sad to say, he is inevitably remembered less for his artistry than for the degraded spectacle of his life and times.
  — Ted Gioia, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2019
• The land might already host a degraded forest, with less tree cover, fewer species, and poorer soil.
  — Isabella Kaminski, Wired, 25 Dec. 2019
• Take the first right beyond the sign and follow the degraded road that plows though a draw where the mesas gradually pinch the path.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 Mar. 2020
• This delusion only makes sense as the degraded expression of the Biden age.
  — Armond White, National Review, 2 Dec. 2022
• His keen observational eye and provocative prose reveal the majesty of the many degraded rivers around the world.
  — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2025
• The eggs discovered there were so well preserved that the team was able to detect degraded protein fragments from the eggshells.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
• And while the rain that peppered the women’s race had mostly stopped by the time the men’s race got underway, the route was even more degraded.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 5 July 2023
• And there will be more bloodshed, more loss of life, more pain and trauma, and a deeply degraded way of life for all Americans.
  — Rob Schenck, Time, 6 Aug. 2019
• Retrieval pipelines can flag degraded trust signals.
  — Emma McGrattan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
• Brady is 42 and showing frustration with the degraded roster around him.
  — Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• Schroer said the dirt and stone cave floor has become degraded, and the project will make the path smoother and more durable while making steps and handrails more user-friendly.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2019
• Around 55% say their degraded mental state is getting in the way of a good night’s sleep, according to the report.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
• The team took five aces of an unloved degraded peatland, drained in the 1970s, and rebuilt the dikes, pumps and plumbing.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021