How to Use deleterious in a Sentence

deleterious

adjective

• The drug has no deleterious effects on patients.
• The chemical is deleterious to the environment.
• For more than a year and a half, we've been told that the worries of adults have changed the lives of kids in all sorts of deleterious ways.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2021
• Books will even be pulled off the shelf because they’re judged to be deleterious to public morals.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2016
• In this case, the stimulus is real, as are the deleterious effects of stress on the body.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2017
• All this killing and death and, yes, remorse has had a deleterious impact on my sleep.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• Sports is the great connector, and in its absence, the effects have been deleterious.
  — Matt Giles, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Lack of sleep can be deleterious to our health and even be dangerous in some circumstances.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• The salt is having a more deleterious impact, the scientists say.
  — Jane Perlez, New York Times, 28 May 2016
• But the rise of benzos has also had deleterious effects in a country that is still in the grips of a deadly opioid epidemic.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2022
• As in Britain, the mere threat of such lawsuits is having a deleterious effect in the U.S.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2021
• Most everyone now knows the action of pressing mouse keys is far more deleterious to the tender structures of the wrist and hand than typing is.
  — Michael Finley, Albany (New York) Times-Union, 2 Sept. 1998
• But a number of studies from around the world have shown that even lower levels can have major deleterious effects on brain function.
  — Noah Smith, Twin Cities, 21 July 2019
• This is how a taboo breaks down, with deleterious effects on due process for victims of rape and abuse, both in court and in everyday snap judgments.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 June 2019
• Ferren has seen the deleterious effects of aging firsthand.
  — Gogo Lidz, Newsweek, 1 June 2015
• This will have a deleterious effect on the bank’s future cross-selling and up-selling success.
  — Ron Shevlin, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• Among advanced countries, the EU engaged in the most deleterious of such policies.
  — Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• Most of us have heard of Lyme disease but know little of the disease or its potential deleterious effects.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2023
• More and more scientific studies have shown the range of deleterious effects that may result from overuse social media.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
• The deleterious effects of sleep loss are also well documented.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2018
• Fauci fully admits that the nation as a whole cannot afford to stay closed forever because of the deleterious consequences.
  — Nsikan Akpan, National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2020
• In our fame-drunk culture, this indulgence can be deleterious.
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 July 2022
• That words cause stress, and stress prolonged over time causes trauma, and that has deleterious physical effects on us.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 7 Feb. 2023
• Death has a more deleterious impact on the environment than many realize.
  — William Ralston, Wired, 26 July 2022
• So the deleterious effects associated with weight gain tend to show up at lower absolute weights for them.
  — Christine Gorman, Scientific American, 10 May 2016
• Previous studies have shown that roads can have a deleterious effect on the environment.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2016
• On top of these changes to our natural environment, and arguably more deleterious, are changes to our social norms.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
• Now, some will point out that because of how quickly it was developed, there is no way to definitively prove that the vaccine will have no deleterious effects down the line.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 10 Dec. 2020
• Stop the addiction to needless waste of chemicals that are deleterious to our environment.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Aug. 2017
• As the coronavirus showed, diseases can spill over from animals to humans with deleterious effect.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024