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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• New rules this year required climbers to pack out their own excrement, which does not fully degrade on the frigid mountain.
  — Aishwarya Thapa Chhetri, NBC News, 16 June 2024
• And since each oil is packaged in a dark amber bottle, there’s no need to worry about UV light degrading them over time.
  — Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2023
• But a new study found that emissions from cooking may degrade the air quality outdoors as well.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
• Ozone, which can irritate the airways, is degraded by smog, which is more common in cities.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
• At the same time, the research showed the performance of the latest, most powerful LLMs degraded less than those of smaller models.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
• Two batteries with the same state of health right now might degrade at different rates after that, depending on usage patterns.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024