How to Use degraded in a Sentence

degraded

adjective

• The team took five aces of an unloved degraded peatland, drained in the 1970s, and rebuilt the dikes, pumps and plumbing.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
• Some say the biome that rises from the fires will be a degraded, open-canopy forest.
  — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• Rivers are among the most degraded ecosystems on the planet.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2021
• With Gadot’s Rachel as a superspy out to save the world, the movie is a degraded descendant of the Bond thrillers.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Aug. 2023
• More:Milwaukee is turning around one of the most degraded sites in the Great Lakes.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• More:Milwaukee is turning around one of the most degraded sites in the Great Lakes.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
• Take the first right beyond the sign and follow the degraded road that plows though a draw where the mesas gradually pinch the path.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 Mar. 2020
• And while the rain that peppered the women’s race had mostly stopped by the time the men’s race got underway, the route was even more degraded.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 5 July 2023
• Some of the rubber and plastic had become stiff and degraded.
  — Susan Saulny, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
• Healthy plants remove more carbon from the air and return it to the soil than plants growing in degraded soil.
  — Outdoor Life, 14 Oct. 2020
• Karangwa say he's now had the change to travel all over the world, to learn and share knowledge about how to restore degraded lands.
  — Andrew Wight, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
• For years, advocates have been trying to sound the alarm about the degraded state of the water system in the United States.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2021
• Three months later, a sea anemone-like polyp rose like a phoenix from the degraded jellyfish.
  — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2016
• The park gets a lot of foot traffic—from both humans and dogs—which has caused some areas to become degraded.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2024
• Schroer said the dirt and stone cave floor has become degraded, and the project will make the path smoother and more durable while making steps and handrails more user-friendly.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2019
• More:Wisconsin has four of the most degraded waterways in the Great Lakes basin.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2023
• Part of this new story is addressing the injustices that have brought the forests to such a degraded point.
  — Moira Donovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2022
• Next, the spacewalkers wrested the old, degraded hand from the robot arm.
  — Marcia Dunn, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Around 55% say their degraded mental state is getting in the way of a good night’s sleep, according to the report.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
• And there will be more bloodshed, more loss of life, more pain and trauma, and a deeply degraded way of life for all Americans.
  — Rob Schenck, Time, 6 Aug. 2019
• This delusion only makes sense as the degraded expression of the Biden age.
  — Armond White, National Review, 2 Dec. 2022
• The degraded landscapes are attractive to bees because of the massive amounts of pollen and nectar that bloom at the same time, the researchers said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2021
• But, sad to say, he is inevitably remembered less for his artistry than for the degraded spectacle of his life and times.
  — Ted Gioia, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2019
• The eggs discovered there were so well preserved that the team was able to detect degraded protein fragments from the eggshells.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
• The money would be used to reconstruct the apron area outside the hangars and the airport’s two main taxiways, which have become degraded over time.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 11 May 2020
• The lens surface is far too degraded for the polishing compound to rescue it.
  — Michael Austin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2017
• One of the goals is to halt deforestation and restore degraded forests by 2020, Amazon Watch said.
  — Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• It was initially believed to be a piece of degraded wood, HS2 said in a press release Thursday.
  — CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
• The oblong pit near the terminator might be a degraded impact crater, NASA says.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
• The land might already host a degraded forest, with less tree cover, fewer species, and poorer soil.
  — Isabella Kaminski, Wired, 25 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024