How to Use degrading in a Sentence

degrading

adjective

• On Fox News, and in the larger right-wing media universe, the degrading comments Watters was said to have spewed onstage are par for the course.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 28 June 2023
• There was nothing about it that felt shameful or degrading.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2021
• That, combined with a lack of liquid battery cooling (and the risk of a degrading battery capacity), will be enough to make some brush away the Leaf.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2023
• That is quite degrading language against someone misled by a liar.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 10 July 2021
• Among the indignities she is forced to endure is a lunch party at which one of the hosts’ friends kisses Diouana in a degrading show of power.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• Her horrific experience working on the set of Crash and being killed off Rogue in the most degrading way.
  — Shamika Sanders, Essence, 7 July 2020
• Signs of a degrading concrete column exposed to de-icing salt and moisture in a basement.
  — Abieyuwa Aghayere, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2024
• His hands were tied behind his back and he was treated in a degrading and humiliating manner.
  — Katie Polglase, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
• The urgent need to call them out on this egregious failing in increasingly degrading ways is a burden as old as Methuselah himself.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2024
• But this book suggests that quarantine doesn’t have to be such a degrading experience.
  — New York Times, 26 July 2021
• Now that sea levels are higher, the concrete and steel foundation piles are exposed to the degrading effects of saltwater more often.
  — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• Anybody and everybody would say something degrading to me.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
• In the case of the white-telephone-cord purse, Curran sniffed out the presence of plasticizers that typically emerge from degrading PVC—a useful alarm bell for staff who may want to store the purse in a sealed container.
  — Sarah Everts, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2016
• That smell of vinegar is not just an alarm bell that these objects are destroying themselves but that the degrading polymer is taking down innocent bystanders as well.
  — Sarah Everts, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2016
• The source added that Trump’s history of attacking the Obama family and making degrading comments about people of color doesn’t sit well with her.
  — Vivian Kwarm, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025
• The first was in a degrading context: Brown University’s annual Spring Weekend, in 2013.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
• Graduation from boot camp did not end their degrading treatment.
  — Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2021
• The moment in handcuffs was traumatic and degrading, specifically for Stewart, who broke down while detained inside the store.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 31 Aug. 2021
• On Friday, 18 members of the fraternity were found guilty of manslaughter and degrading treatment.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
• Detainees reported being kept naked for long periods and asked to open their legs and hold degrading positions, sometimes while male guards looked on and fondled themselves.
  — Lynzy Billing, The Dial, 6 May 2025
• The degrading effects of colonialism, though, are a preoccupation of hers.
  — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 7 May 2024
• Drill sergeants now minimize their use of profanity, insults and degrading remarks and strive to become support figures for trainees.
  — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025
• The problem is not that sweeping and sponging are intrinsically degrading but that so many of us have tragically little say in the basic circumstances of our lives.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• Thanks to the internet and smartphones, children today have instant access to vast amounts of online pornography, much of it graphic, violent and degrading, Texas state attorneys told the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
• More water is running through the river in general, eroding islands and degrading conditions for fish who reside in its backwaters.
  — Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2024
• Nevertheless, Mulkey was right to bash the degrading, divisive and defamatory commentary published in the L.A. Times.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• No one should be subject to listening to the most degrading and profane words that now seem popular with some people.
  — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 16 June 2026
• Nowak's father called his son's treatment by police inhumane and degrading.
  — Holly Williams, CBS News, 3 June 2026
• The way he was treated was inhumane and degrading.
  — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
• Most people acclimate within a week or two, and cotton gets softer with every wash rather than pilling or degrading.
  — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026