How to Use degraded in a Sentence
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Three months later, a sea anemone-like polyp rose like a phoenix from the degraded jellyfish.
— National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2016 -
Any step toward something more natural is better than the more degraded landscape that came before.
— National Geographic, 23 Mar. 2016 -
Here’s a better example where the Fine-Tuned version’s text is much more noticeably degraded.
— James Floyd Kelly, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2012 -
Ever since, engineers have been reviewing telemetry, carrying out thruster tests in orbit and on the ground to pin down the cause of the degraded performance.
— William Harwood, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2024 -
Breadfruit can also help to restore degraded environments, Ragone says.
— Richard Schiffman, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024 -
The exclusion law resulted from two decades of racist agitation on the Pacific Coast by whites, who claimed the Chinese were a degraded, slave-like race.
— Time Staff, Time, 18 May 1950 -
The team took five aces of an unloved degraded peatland, drained in the 1970s, and rebuilt the dikes, pumps and plumbing.
— Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021 -
Some say the biome that rises from the fires will be a degraded, open-canopy forest.
— John Muyskens, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022 -
Rivers are among the most degraded ecosystems on the planet.
— Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2021 -
With Gadot’s Rachel as a superspy out to save the world, the movie is a degraded descendant of the Bond thrillers.
— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Aug. 2023 -
More:Milwaukee is turning around one of the most degraded sites in the Great Lakes.
— Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024 -
More:Milwaukee is turning around one of the most degraded sites in the Great Lakes.
— Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024 -
Take the first right beyond the sign and follow the degraded road that plows though a draw where the mesas gradually pinch the path.
— Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 Mar. 2020 -
And while the rain that peppered the women’s race had mostly stopped by the time the men’s race got underway, the route was even more degraded.
— Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 5 July 2023 -
Healthy plants remove more carbon from the air and return it to the soil than plants growing in degraded soil.
— Outdoor Life, 14 Oct. 2020 -
Karangwa say he's now had the change to travel all over the world, to learn and share knowledge about how to restore degraded lands.
— Andrew Wight, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021 -
For years, advocates have been trying to sound the alarm about the degraded state of the water system in the United States.
— Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2021 -
Schroer said the dirt and stone cave floor has become degraded, and the project will make the path smoother and more durable while making steps and handrails more user-friendly.
— USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2019 -
More:Wisconsin has four of the most degraded waterways in the Great Lakes basin.
— Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2023 -
Part of this new story is addressing the injustices that have brought the forests to such a degraded point.
— Moira Donovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2022 -
Next, the spacewalkers wrested the old, degraded hand from the robot arm.
— Marcia Dunn, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2018 -
And there will be more bloodshed, more loss of life, more pain and trauma, and a deeply degraded way of life for all Americans.
— Rob Schenck, Time, 6 Aug. 2019 -
This delusion only makes sense as the degraded expression of the Biden age.
— Armond White, National Review, 2 Dec. 2022 -
The degraded landscapes are attractive to bees because of the massive amounts of pollen and nectar that bloom at the same time, the researchers said.
— Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2021 -
But, sad to say, he is inevitably remembered less for his artistry than for the degraded spectacle of his life and times.
— Ted Gioia, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2019 -
The eggs discovered there were so well preserved that the team was able to detect degraded protein fragments from the eggshells.
— Katie Hunt, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023 -
The money would be used to reconstruct the apron area outside the hangars and the airport’s two main taxiways, which have become degraded over time.
— Peter Krouse, cleveland, 11 May 2020 -
The lens surface is far too degraded for the polishing compound to rescue it.
— Michael Austin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2017 -
One of the goals is to halt deforestation and restore degraded forests by 2020, Amazon Watch said.
— Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2020 -
It was initially believed to be a piece of degraded wood, HS2 said in a press release Thursday.
— CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
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