How to Use degrading in a Sentence

degrading

adjective

• On Fox News, and in the larger right-wing media universe, the degrading comments Watters was said to have spewed onstage are par for the course.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 28 June 2023
• There was nothing about it that felt shameful or degrading.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2021
• That, combined with a lack of liquid battery cooling (and the risk of a degrading battery capacity), will be enough to make some brush away the Leaf.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2023
• That is quite degrading language against someone misled by a liar.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 10 July 2021
• Among the indignities she is forced to endure is a lunch party at which one of the hosts’ friends kisses Diouana in a degrading show of power.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• Her horrific experience working on the set of Crash and being killed off Rogue in the most degrading way.
  — Shamika Sanders, Essence, 7 July 2020
• Signs of a degrading concrete column exposed to de-icing salt and moisture in a basement.
  — Abieyuwa Aghayere, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2024
• His hands were tied behind his back and he was treated in a degrading and humiliating manner.
  — Katie Polglase, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
• The urgent need to call them out on this egregious failing in increasingly degrading ways is a burden as old as Methuselah himself.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2024
• But this book suggests that quarantine doesn’t have to be such a degrading experience.
  — New York Times, 26 July 2021
• Now that sea levels are higher, the concrete and steel foundation piles are exposed to the degrading effects of saltwater more often.
  — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• Anybody and everybody would say something degrading to me.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
• Graduation from boot camp did not end their degrading treatment.
  — Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2021
• The moment in handcuffs was traumatic and degrading, specifically for Stewart, who broke down while detained inside the store.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 31 Aug. 2021
• On Friday, 18 members of the fraternity were found guilty of manslaughter and degrading treatment.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
• The problem is not that sweeping and sponging are intrinsically degrading but that so many of us have tragically little say in the basic circumstances of our lives.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• More water is running through the river in general, eroding islands and degrading conditions for fish who reside in its backwaters.
  — Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2024
• Nevertheless, Mulkey was right to bash the degrading, divisive and defamatory commentary published in the L.A. Times.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• But membership on Mali’s women’s youth national team often comes with an abusive and degrading cost, according to current and former players and parents.
  — New York Times, 13 June 2021
• The group disbanded not long after, and a number of the members have described Paul as an immature bully, constantly pressuring them to perform dangerous or degrading stunts; Paul denies all of it.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• When Mia starts to receive a barrage of degrading texts, as a protective mother, Madelyn is determined to find out who is harassing her daughter and will do anything to help her, bringing them closer together again.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
• In 2009, the U.S. Dept. of Justice sued the sheriff’s office for a host of constitutional violations related to cruel and degrading treatment of inmates, including failure to mitigate the risk of suicide.
  — Raina Lipsitz, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• This is one of the show's cruelest moments yet (and arguably, one of the most nonsensical regarding story logic), as an instance of hope turns into another harrowing and degrading experience.
  — Amanda Ostuni, EW.com, 5 May 2021
• Please choose the response that most discourages and opposes torture, slavery, cruelty, and inhuman or degrading treatment.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023
• If fostering a degrading, sexist workplace environment for two decades can’t bring Snyder down, perhaps a financial scandal can.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2022
• While curiosity and concern for Keith's degrading health are understandable, there's a more likely reason why Toby chose to announce his diagnosis now.
  — Hannah Jeon, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2022
• Twitter banned the practice as part of its rule against degrading behavior or other hateful content until April, when the company’s new management under Musk quietly changed the rule without an official announcement.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 1 June 2023
• While going through security, the Lehman College student endured an excruciating and degrading search.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 3 Oct. 2023
• Human rights groups have repeatedly criticized airdrops as an inefficient and degrading way of getting aid to Gazans, instead urging Israeli authorities to lift controls on land crossings into the enclave.
  — Abdelqadder Sabbah, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• Twitter’s previous management had a rule against degrading behavior or other hateful content.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 26 July 2023

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2024