How to Use degrade in a Sentence

degrade

verb

• Scratches on a camera lens will degrade the image.
• The group accuses the company of degrading women in its ads.
• He felt degraded by their remarks.
• Pollution has degraded air quality.
• Now, that is all with the assumption that the overall macro environment doesn’t degrade from here.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2022
• Either shape, the team fretted, might degrade project safety and set off alarms at the EPA.
  — Wired, 29 July 2022
• According to the park service, the number of people trampling through the area over the years has caused the base of the tree to degrade and has wiped out ferns that would normally surround it.
  — Alexis Benveniste, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2022
• EVs are powered by rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that naturally degrade over time.
  — Doron Frenkel, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• The region, nearly the size of California, had been heavily degraded by years of overuse and overgrazing.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 8 Sep. 2024
• Not only did moving to a four-day workweek not degrade our productivity, but the months following the shift were among the most productive in our history.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2022
• Texture: Textured or warped containers are a sign they’ve been exposed to high heat temperatures and the plastic has started the degrading process.
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
• Over time, a chaotic workplace will not only degrade the performance of the organization but denigrate the culture of the organization as well.
  — Bill Adams, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• With time, this would allow Beijing to degrade U.S. efforts to mobilize traditional alliances against it.
  — Tom Rogan, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
• Users also had their experiences with Google services degraded, putting them at risk and impairing the value of the company’s brand, according to the lawsuit.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024
• The hairs, found in 2010, were degraded and DNA testing at the time couldn’t yield results.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 15 July 2023
• By then the fierce winds had degraded to medium-strength breezes.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
• These are all quick ways to degrade the company and the quality of the platform.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 31 Oct. 2022
• When an egg sits and matures in storage, the white will begin to break down or degrade.
  — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2024
• Rinse the spot with clean water to remove any soap residue, which might degrade the fabric over time.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2024
• The stomach tends to degrade them, and Levin says the current version of their compound would need to be a pretty large pill.
  — WIRED, 14 Feb. 2023
• Hence, the products should still work, but the experience may degrade over time.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 10 Apr. 2023
• The blades will not degrade even after sanding and painting.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 26 Sep. 2022
• If it's degraded... the photoreceptors in the back of the eye could be lost forever.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
• The result did more to degrade Tocqueville than to elevate Louis-Napoleon.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 28 Dec. 2023
• The neurotoxin will just need to degrade in your system on its own over time.
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 3 Nov. 2022
• These strikes were meant to disrupt and degrade their ability to conduct these strikes.
  — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
• The systems could also slowly degrade over time, the person said.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• Heat can stretch out the material and may degrade the fabric.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 4 Mar. 2024
• Fixing the degrading infrastructure and sea wall will run in the tens of millions of dollars, if not more.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• New rules this year required climbers to pack out their own excrement, which does not fully degrade on the frigid mountain.
  — Aishwarya Thapa Chhetri, NBC News, 16 June 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024