How to Use degenerative in a Sentence

degenerative

adjective

• One showed signs of a degenerative disease, but the others appear to have died of illnesses that didn't leave clear marks on their skeletons.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2017
• Her mom, who had been diagnosed with a degenerative kidney disease when Carly was in high school, was ailing.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• Retinitis Pigmentosa is a degenerative disease in which retinal cells break down and are eventually lost.
  — Jillian Selzer, Cosmopolitan, 23 Jan. 2018
• Sleep deprivation has also been linked to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other long-term degenerative brain diseases.
  — Jeff Stibel, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2017
• The subject is Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer who died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2024
• The 60-year-old retired nurse from New Jersey lives with spinal cord tumors, degenerative disc disease and scoliosis.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2017
• Loss of meniscus does increase the risk of degenerative changes in the knee.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2021
• But the degenerative disc disease that has plagued him all his life acted up again, and the house just is no longer a good fit for him.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2018
• Alzheimer’s is a degenerative brain disease the damages and kills brain cells.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• It’s here that Lish had to contend with his past — his own mother’s death from the degenerative disease.
  — Tobias Carroll, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• Biogen's drug Aduhelm may help slow damage to the brain caused by the degenerative disease.
  — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 8 June 2021
• The cause of death was degenerative disease of the nervous system.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 July 2022
• The degenerative nervous system disease can affect nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 9 July 2024
• But a few years ago, the 71-year-old got a degenerative autoimmune disease.
  — David Fischer and Terry Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
• More than six million people in the U.S. are living with the degenerative brain disease.
  — Mia McNiece, PEOPLE.com, 17 Mar. 2022
• The rare degenerative disease causes the cells in the retina to break down slowly over time, causing vision loss.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
• Film explores the life of Norwegian gamer Mats Steen, known as Ibelin in the gaming world, who died at the age of 25 from a degenerative muscular disease.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 21 July 2024
• Osteoarthritis is a degenerative condition where the cartilage in cats’ joints breaks down, which can lead to pain when the bones in the joint rub against each other.
  — Sara Tabin, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• When he was diagnosed with a degenerative motor disease at the age of 21, Hawking was given just a few years to live.
  — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• That will probably be the central conflict, though others in the town have stuff to deal with, from degenerative diseases to finding a dead body.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 9 Sep. 2023
• And Bakari was an older male with a degenerative disc disease.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2022
• But comedy can still be a weapon in the fight against this deadly degenerative disease.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, STAT, 8 Sep. 2023
• The future course of her disease is unpredictable as is the case with most degenerative diseases.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• Julie Despres was a Navy wife and mother of four who turned to Misra in 2014 for relief from the torment of degenerative disc disease and lower back pain.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
• New research shows that chronic stress can even raise the risk of degenerative brain diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• Later in life, even as a degenerative eye condition robbed him of his sight, the images of his past never escaped him.
  — NBC News, 15 May 2020
• Shawn White, 62, is in a wheelchair, and suffers from spinal stenosis and degenerative disc disease.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
• That’s just part of life with degenerative hearing loss, which the Eastern Hancock junior and her eighth-grade sister have had since childhood.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2020
• The suit alleged that hits to the head led to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease known by the acronym CTE.
  — Brian Melley, ajc, 23 Nov. 2022
• Suppose the first has MS a degenerative disease that will probably kill them by age 75 while the other can expect to live to 80 - the average age of death in their country.
  — Nicole Hassoun, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024