How to Use deteriorate in a Sentence

deteriorate

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• Exposure to rain and sun will gradually deteriorate the paint.
• He was also asked how to make sure that AI would not deteriorate the craft of acting over time.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Nov. 2023
• For the artists involved, spray painting the structure was a way to infuse life into a deteriorating area of the city.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• But if donations deteriorate enough, the downturn would start to endanger some of the school’s key goals.
  — Janet Lorin, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
• The outdoor shed has a durable resin construction that won't deteriorate over time.
  — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2023
• Conditions have deteriorated as the Fed has raised rates, showing signs of stress not seen since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2023
• The left turbocharger oil feed pipe may deteriorate and leak oil.
  — USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
• These showed various areas of the deteriorating ship, including the ship’s famous bow and the entrance to the grand staircase.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
• Even as her health deteriorates, the woman musters up the strength to create a moving light show with the findings uncovered by her great explorations with her great love.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2023
• The area is home to a number of endangered animals, such as the western snowy plover, which have been harmed by the beach’s deteriorating conditions.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2024
• But almost all of them have darkened and deteriorated over time.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Getting a sample of frozen soil is difficult, and wet soil is heavier to send and the moisture could deteriorate the bag or box during shipping and alter the soil, Alford says.
  — Lauren David, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• But its structures have deteriorated in the nearly three decades since its debut.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
• But as the weeks passed, his condition deteriorated so much that one day that fall, Marci Waite and her husband, John, were quietly pulled aside by one of their son’s doctors.
  — Max Blau, ProPublica, 21 Aug. 2023
• Often, the central bank trims rates to shore up a deteriorating economy and job market.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
• As his health deteriorated, so did his apartment, though tastefully appointed, with two Eames-style chairs and a shag rug in his living room.
  — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• The prosecutor said Moreno and Hargrove were once friends, but their friendship had been deteriorating for nearly a year.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023
• Her condition deteriorated on the way to Illinois, the coroner said.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• The peace deteriorated in the coming years, culminating in the War of 1812, after which the U.S. continued to expel indigenous peoples from the Ohio area.
  — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2023
• Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. meat supplier, swung to a loss in its latest quarter and cut its sales forecast for the year as high costs across its business and deteriorating consumer demand squeezed the industry.
  — Patrick Thomas, wsj.com, 8 May 2023
• And conditions in the camp were deteriorating; the previous evening, five detainees had been murdered.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• On the floors of state legislatures over the past year, doctors detailed the risks their pregnant patients have faced when forced to wait to terminate until their health deteriorated.
  — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 27 Nov. 2023
• But in more recent years the relationship between the world’s two largest economies has deteriorated markedly.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 20 July 2023
• In a deteriorating cloud market for private cloud service providers, Alibaba, Huawei and Tencent also engaged in a price war, which hurt all of them.
  — Gurufocus, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• The quality of play across the conference has deteriorated substantially in the past 10-15 years.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
• For at least 250 years, blacksmiths used a forge built inside the base of the tower that significantly deteriorated the fragile selenite stones at the base.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• Their ties have deteriorated since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year.
  — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• Since inflation has slowed markedly from its four-decade peak in the summer of 2022 without the economy deteriorating, at least for now, the Fed doesn’t have any incentive to cut rates as soon as March or to bring them near zero.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
• The ascent went well but weather conditions deteriorated rapidly on the way down.
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 24 June 2023
• Her mental health and grades have been deteriorating since the shooting, according to her mother, Cynthia.
  — Lilia Luciano, CBS News, 24 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024