How to Use depreciate in a Sentence

depreciate

verb

• These changes have greatly depreciated the value of the house.
• The value of the house has depreciated greatly.
• And Olakunle says that prices have climbed since then as the naira has depreciated.
  — Christine Ro, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• The central bank said in early 2015 that the franc would depreciate over time, but hasn’t happened.
  — Catherine Bosley, Bloomberg.com, 13 May 2020
• The afghani has continued to depreciate against the U.S. dollar since the Taliban took over more than two months ago.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2021
• Raw land doesn’t wear out or depreciate and there is nothing that can be stolen or broken on it.
  — Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2021
• Anything in excess of that must be depreciated over the course of 180 months.
  — Karlton Dennis, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• The peso has depreciated around 60% compared to the U.S. dollar over the past year.
  — Almuneda Calatrava, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2023
• As the Wolves improve, the value of its future firsts will depreciate.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 21 July 2017
• The couple, once in the middle class, now survive on two salaries that have depreciated to the equivalent of $2.19 a day.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2016
• These changes may serve as a reminder about that, though of course these products will depreciate in that channel as well.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2020
• Yurchenko said at some point prices will have to go back to normal and used vehicles will depreciate once again.
  — CBS News, 5 July 2021
• And at a time when airlines want younger fleets to save on fuel, older craft depreciate even faster.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
• As the governments depreciate the dollar, the value of your debt will fall just like the government’s bonds.
  — Dr. Philip Fischer, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• This isn’t a time to depreciate Cleveland’s performance, not on a night when the Cavs actually showed a pulse at that end of the floor.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 24 Oct. 2019
• That slight fall came on the back of the Japanese yen depreciating 9.3% and has largely remained at the mercy of the U.S. dollar since...
  — Anjani Trivedi, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2017
• Our games have seemed to depreciate from the honorable to the flexible, so that drugs and abuse and fraud and dishonesty are all part of the greater landscape.
  — Bernie Lincicome, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2017
• The reason: The value of running backs has depreciated over the years, but would teams deem Robinson too valuable to pass up?
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
• Since the trade war began last year, the currency has depreciated by around 12% against the US dollar.
  — Laura He, CNN, 19 Dec. 2019
• Cars generally depreciate by the end of the first year at around 20–30 percent.
  — Megan Ditrolio, Marie Claire, 19 July 2021
• Cars depreciate most in value during the first year of ownership—up to 20%.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2023
• China has also allowed the yuan to depreciate to its lowest levels in more than a decade in recent weeks.
  — Laura He, CNN, 16 Sep. 2019
• If your roof is 10 years old, for example, it would be depreciated by 10 years.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2018
• The ariary may depreciate by 3.7% against the dollar on average next year.
  — Kamlesh Bhuckory, Bloomberg.com, 21 Nov. 2020
• The won will probably depreciate with the Chinese yuan if and when the currency breaks through the symbolic seven line.
  — Mike Bird, WSJ, 24 June 2019
• Inflation is on the rise, and the currency is depreciating against the dollar.
  — Sabrina Karim, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
• Whereas Ms Shelton has called for a strong dollar, Mr Trump gets irate when other countries seek to depreciate against it.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Solar projects depreciate over six years, a point at which their owners often sell or donate them.
  — Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
• When historically high inflation and a depreciating dollar took hold at the end of the decade, investors had nowhere else to go.
  — Greg McKenna, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024
• However, if the US were to default and for the first time in history fail to pay back those debts the value of government bonds would depreciate and the global market would enter a tailspin.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024