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.
• These practices degrade soil and emit a vast amount of greenhouse gases.
  — Chad Frischmann, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
• Bettery still, the ANC didn’t degrade the sound of the music.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• Anything infused with essential oils will have a shorter shelf life; these candles tend to degrade after about two years.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Nov. 2024
• With their archaic, almost haunting beauty, these unique objects are meant to degrade, sag and collapse over time.
  — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• Even lesser offenses continue to degrade the quality of life.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• But people in the community said they were disturbed that the bodies going in and out of the morgue only degrade the community.
  — Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• That microgravity explains why vision tends to degrade over time, and being in space could result in cognitive declines long-term.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
• Use a delicate wash cycle with high spin speed to get as much moisture out as possible, and avoid using fabric softener, which can degrade the down's fluffy texture.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 6 Nov. 2024
• Widening the road would hardly improve the experience of these seasonal users and probably degrade it, critics say.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Nov. 2021
• But age persists as one element of diversity that marketers both ignore and degrade through attempts at humor driven by outdated stereotypes.
  — Paul Talbot, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
• And sometimes lawyers make arguments that because time has gone by, evidence has degraded, witnesses don't remember things as well, some witnesses might've died.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2024
• Look for tools that do not degrade the user experience, and that perform processes without additional user involvement — those tend to be the most reliable options.
  — Liudas Kanapienis, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• The problem is that cane toad toxins take longer to degrade.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 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
• Either shape, the team fretted, might degrade project safety and set off alarms at the EPA.
  — Wired, 29 July 2022
• 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
• Faster charging speeds can degrade the battery faster, and that’s not something Apple wants to risk.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Mar. 2022
• The neurotoxin will just need to degrade in your system on its own over time.
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 3 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024