How to Use degeneration in a Sentence

degeneration

noun

• How would lawyers adapt to the degeneration of the rule of law?
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2019
• The cause was senile degeneration of the brain, said a daughter, Kathryn Baird.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• The cause was senile degeneration of the brain, said a daughter, Katherine Shorey Herold.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• More than 20 of them have been linked to the rare, severe degeneration that can cause childhood blindness.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 8 May 2018
• The cause was senile degeneration of the brain, said a daughter, Marta Bosworth.
  — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
• The cause was senile degeneration of the brain, said a son, Peter Siebentritt.
  — Benjamin Gordon, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
• Hernandez was found to have early degeneration of brain cells and large tears in a central membrane of the brain.
  — Tina Burnside, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
• This wear and tear is called disc degeneration, the Mayo Clinic explains.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 11 Sep. 2018
• This approach works regardless of what caused the degeneration, as long as there are healthy retinal cells available to take up the new opsin gene.
  — Caroline Seydel, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• This notion of degeneration owes something to Plato, for whom the visible world is a copy of the eternal forms and mimetic art a copy of that copy.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• The compound makes up 15% of your brain’s fats and may also reduce the risk of cognitive decline and brain degeneration.
  — Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
• Often, the first signs of neuron degeneration happen in the olfactory cortex of the brain—the part that controls your sense of smell.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2023
• These transplants also don’t work for people at the end stages of degeneration, who have lost the outer layer of their retinas.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2017
• The league has downplayed the risks of CTE and is responsible for the advanced degeneration of Hernandez's brain.
  — The Tylt, AL.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• His doctor found further degeneration of his hips and his spine.
  — John Sowell, idahostatesman, 23 Apr. 2018
• This form of macular degeneration is by far the most common kind.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 May 2017
• The famine was due to potato blight—a fungus that caused the degeneration of potato crops across the country, which was essentially the only crop Irish farmers could grow.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023
• Our minds play tricks on us, so that signs of degeneration can go unnoticed for years and then come into focus as harbingers of doom.
  — Rachael Bedard, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2022
• It is often caused by degeneration of the cervical disks, but can also be a result of trauma.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2021
• For years, the prevailing hypothesis was that a buildup of plaques called amyloids in the brain caused mental degeneration.
  — Jeremy Abbate, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
• The cause of Alzheimer’s isn’t known, but many researchers believe that plaque that builds up over decades can cause a cascade of neurological degeneration.
  — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
• Once the degeneration of the cartilage lining a joint begins, there is no treatment available to restore it.
  — Gina Kolata, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• It is characterized by the gradual breakdown, degeneration, and changes in the discs over time.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2023
• Your hips and shoulders bear most of the stress of daily activity, and may be especially prone to degeneration as you age.
  — Brian Maher, Philly.com, 8 May 2018
• The circulation of the destructive components causes the the degeneration of the brain.
  — Christina Oehler, Woman's Day, 17 July 2015
• Anolik said the cause was Huntington’s disease, which causes a progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the brain.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2021
• Sudden acquired retinal degeneration syndrome turned off the lights in a matter of weeks.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 20 July 2022
• Those drivers cause degeneration of the nervous system, specifically the neurons in the brain that erode when disease strikes.
  — Samantha J. Gross, miamiherald, 20 June 2017
• Body horror is a subset of the horror film genre that depicts the destruction, degeneration or mutation of the human body.
  — Beth Younger, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2023
• Covering this degeneration for the last year and a half has stressed me beyond any expectation.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 1 June 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024