How to Use degradation in a Sentence

degradation

noun

• English teachers bemoaning the degradation of the language that e-mail and instant messaging have allegedly brought about.
• Delta 8 is produced in the cannabis plant through the degradation of delta 9.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
• These three factors will work together to slow down the degradation of the food.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2023
• In the predawn chill, the laborer curses his degradation; in the twilight, the bodies of Israelis are given to the earth.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• For at least two decades, that habitat work has been used to justify degradation from the many dams on the river.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022
• When this occurs, nutrients from the blood are unable to reach the eye due to the degradation of the blood vessels and the retinal membrane.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• This will prevent the slow chemical degradation of the fuel in the mower over the winter.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
• Yet for years, Selig aided and abetted the A’s blundering in search of a new ballpark, and the degradation of the A’s franchise to its current state.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
• Land degradation or drought affect 169 countries, with Asia and Africa the hardest-hit.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
• The goal is for the Ioniq to be able to complete two laps with little performance degradation.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 22 June 2023
• This degradation was top of mind at this year’s conference.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Backers cite changing climate, the loss of animal species and the degradation of the hillsides.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
• At least 30 of the complaints described foam degradation, but the FDA said the reports did not indicate that any patients had been harmed.
  — Haajrah Gilani, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2024
• This led to the loss of willow, cottonwood and aspen trees, streambank erosion, and the overall degradation of the ecosystem.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2023
• There’s a kind of relentless degradation that comes with Parkinson’s.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 May 2023
• In web design this is referred to as graceful degradation.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
• The substances resist degradation and build up both in the environment and our bodies.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
• That sort of degradation is blurring the line between human sources of methane and natural ones.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2022
• From an urgency point of view and on a global scale, topsoil degradation is an issue on par and tied up with climate change.
  — Clive Pursehouse, Outside Online, 17 Feb. 2023
• The paltry point of this is to sentimentalize the blue transformation/degradation of the West.
  — Armond White, National Review, 21 Dec. 2022
• It’s all been done before and leaves no profound statement other than the sorry degradation of the humans doing it.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
• There are no two ways to describe the current degradation of the Republican Party.
  — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2024
• There has been an increase in dust and sand storms because of land degradation and droughts caused by climate change, according to the United Nations.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 9 Mar. 2023
• The scan also shows off various tooling marks, degradation, and signs of repair.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
• But the world’s highest peak has a poop problem, driven by the number of visitors, and the harsh conditions on the mountain, which interfere with the degradation process.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
• The agency takes extreme precaution to slow the degradation of these fragile records, made of parchment and featuring iron gall ink.
  — Sean Catangui, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• Researchers believe water degradation due to soil runoff and other pollutants are part of the problem hellbenders face in the state.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2023
• Check for any degradation of mortar that might let water in or otherwise need repair.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 15 Dec. 2022
• As is so often the case with any signs of cultural degradation, social media also must shoulder some of the blame for our regression.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Deer antler velvet is said to stop joint pain and degradation and directly enhance the production of human growth hormone (27).
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024