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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 tribal council can sell the seeds to the BLM, use them to restore degraded land, or perhaps start its own native seed-growing business.
  — Kylie Mohr, Wired, 23 Oct. 2021
• While the other three appeared to have rat lungworms as well, the sample quality was either too low or the DNA too degraded for the researchers to be sure.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
• In some cases, saplings died, possibly because of the degraded soil.
  — Sarah Hurtes, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
• The deal made the highly degraded expanse of marshes, mud flats and salt pans off limits to development.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• However, teeth and bone samples were found to be too degraded to use, police noted.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
• Through Veldman’s eyes, places like this do not seem degraded and disposable, but deeply worthy of protection—for their own sake and ours.
  — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
• Bones that were so degraded, no official cause of death could be determined.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 24 May 2022
• That doesn’t entail a degraded quality of life in places like the U.S. but rather distributing the abundance of wealth here more equitably.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 13 May 2021
• Gathering seeds from healthy plots is the first step in restoring dry, dusty degraded land in the area, a visible mark of colonization.
  — Kylie Mohr, Wired, 23 Oct. 2021
• The European Union has advanced a plan to require that products sold in the bloc must not come from deforested or degraded land.
  — Cnn's Camilo Rocha, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
• His rapid-fire sequences of degraded black-and-white imagery downloaded from the Internet flash up on a giant screen.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
• Often, all that remains of some animals that lived tens of thousands or millions of years ago are small fragments of degraded DNA.
  — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2022
• That means teasing out which proteins are present in a complex and degraded sample can be difficult.
  — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
• The landscapers removed the degraded grass entirely and then prepped and seeded.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024