How to Use devalue in a Sentence

devalue

verb

• Economic woes forced the government to devalue.
• He argues that placing too many requirements on schools devalues the education they provide.
• The government has decided to devalue its currency.
• If a significant portion of the public has their email and social media accounts hacked, those media are devalued.
  — Stephen Marche, Esquire, 26 Jan. 2017
• One of those promises dealt with China’s history of devaluing its currency to gain a trade advantage.
  — Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley and Lori Robertson, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
• The Swiss, for their part, have tried to devalue the franc on and off for several years.
  — Brian Blackstone, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
• His stock was devalued to the point the 10th draft pick a year ago cost the Dolphins the 62nd and NFL pennies for his contract this draft.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 6 June 2019
• This is not a case of devaluing the product by giving it away.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• And the importance of MLS in the sports landscape can no longer be devalued.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Even the would-be signature win at FSU is devalued by the Noles’ off-year.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 30 Oct. 2017
• Many of those spoke out and felt dismissed or devalued.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2023
• And more to the point — what drove those comedians to devalue themselves in the first place?
  — J Wortham, New York Times, 12 May 2024
• But Nissan walked away in March, devaluing Fisker's stock price even further in the process.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 10 May 2024
• But there are changes each year, mostly to devalue your points or to extract more fees — or both.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Jan. 2023
• TrackMan rewards the lazy catcher, the bad receiver, and devalues the good receivers, and that’s a big part of the game.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 July 2019
• Don’t sell yourself short; know your worth and refuse to let anyone devalue you.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
• To let Garrett off with a slap on the wrist would devalue their discipline.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• Since the Trump era, the currency has devalued by 20% because of inflation in the last five years.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
• The result was a 2018 Grammys that postured at trendy wokeness while devaluing the artists who have the most to say about our times.
  — Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2018
• Doing so would devalue the Hanson buck, hence the agreement.
  — Richard P. Smith, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2023
• The shocks have forced some nations to devalue sharply, others may soon follow.
  — Karl Lester M Yap, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
• No other major sport devalues 90 percent of its season the way the NBA does.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 July 2018
• And if everyone can slam homers, the home run itself is devalued.
  — The Tylt, OregonLive.com, 3 July 2017
• But this fact in no way devalues her character or the series.
  — Anne T. Donahue, Marie Claire, 6 Dec. 2018
• Yet over time, the airlines have the power to devalue such currency.
  — Sheldon H. Jacobson, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
• Some say that the position has been devalued, but there are some valuable three-down linebackers in this class.
  — SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• That the asset was devalued in the process was yet another break in Zucker’s favor.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 25 July 2023
• Braun has since resold the masters to a third party, but Swift has forged ahead with a plan to devalue her old tracks by releasing new versions of them.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2021
• Doing that while also adding more podcasts to the market will devalue a premium form of content, putting the entire podcast industry in danger.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 26 Sep. 2024
• This marginalises and devalues the unique features of Black women, not only affecting a Black girl's self-esteem but also shaping how society perceives us.
  — Sheilla Mamona, refinery29.com, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024