How to Use degrade in a Sentence

degrade

verb

• Scratches on a camera lens will degrade the image.
• The group accuses the company of degrading women in its ads.
• He felt degraded by their remarks.
• Pollution has degraded air quality.
• Bettery still, the ANC didn’t degrade the sound of the music.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• The problem is that cane toad toxins take longer to degrade.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
• The hairs, found in 2010, were degraded and DNA testing at the time couldn’t yield results.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 15 July 2023
• By then the fierce winds had degraded to medium-strength breezes.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
• These are all quick ways to degrade the company and the quality of the platform.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 31 Oct. 2022
• When an egg sits and matures in storage, the white will begin to break down or degrade.
  — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2024
• Either shape, the team fretted, might degrade project safety and set off alarms at the EPA.
  — Wired, 29 July 2022
• Rinse the spot with clean water to remove any soap residue, which might degrade the fabric over time.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2024
• The stomach tends to degrade them, and Levin says the current version of their compound would need to be a pretty large pill.
  — WIRED, 14 Feb. 2023
• Hence, the products should still work, but the experience may degrade over time.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 10 Apr. 2023
• My philosophy is to build the kids up and never yell at them or degrade them.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• The blades will not degrade even after sanding and painting.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 26 Sep. 2022
• If it's degraded... the photoreceptors in the back of the eye could be lost forever.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
• The result did more to degrade Tocqueville than to elevate Louis-Napoleon.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 28 Dec. 2023
• Faster charging speeds can degrade the battery faster, and that’s not something Apple wants to risk.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Mar. 2022
• These practices degrade soil and emit a vast amount of greenhouse gases.
  — Chad Frischmann, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
• The neurotoxin will just need to degrade in your system on its own over time.
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 3 Nov. 2022
• But some forms of insulation begin to degrade at around the 15-year mark.
  — Tribune News Service, al, 18 June 2022
• These strikes were meant to disrupt and degrade their ability to conduct these strikes.
  — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
• The systems could also slowly degrade over time, the person said.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• In the case of the new study, benzoyl peroxide can degrade into benzene.
  — Elizabeth Yuko, Health, 17 Oct. 2024
• The batteries on EVs, just like in any other device, will degrade over time.
  — USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
• Heat can stretch out the material and may degrade the fabric.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 4 Mar. 2024
• Fixing the degrading infrastructure and sea wall will run in the tens of millions of dollars, if not more.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• While charging, some polysulfides would migrate back to the cathode, but not all, degrading the battery very quickly.
  — New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2024
• Iran, meanwhile, has seen its proxies across the region degraded by regular Israeli airstrikes.
  — Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024