How to Use depreciate in a Sentence

depreciate

verb

• These changes have greatly depreciated the value of the house.
• The value of the house has depreciated greatly.
• And Olakunle says that prices have climbed since then as the naira has depreciated.
  — Christine Ro, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• The central bank said in early 2015 that the franc would depreciate over time, but hasn’t happened.
  — Catherine Bosley, Bloomberg.com, 13 May 2020
• The afghani has continued to depreciate against the U.S. dollar since the Taliban took over more than two months ago.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2021
• Raw land doesn’t wear out or depreciate and there is nothing that can be stolen or broken on it.
  — Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2021
• Anything in excess of that must be depreciated over the course of 180 months.
  — Karlton Dennis, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• The peso has depreciated around 60% compared to the U.S. dollar over the past year.
  — Almuneda Calatrava, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2023
• As the Wolves improve, the value of its future firsts will depreciate.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 21 July 2017
• The couple, once in the middle class, now survive on two salaries that have depreciated to the equivalent of $2.19 a day.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2016
• These changes may serve as a reminder about that, though of course these products will depreciate in that channel as well.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2020
• Yurchenko said at some point prices will have to go back to normal and used vehicles will depreciate once again.
  — CBS News, 5 July 2021
• And at a time when airlines want younger fleets to save on fuel, older craft depreciate even faster.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
• As the governments depreciate the dollar, the value of your debt will fall just like the government’s bonds.
  — Dr. Philip Fischer, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• This isn’t a time to depreciate Cleveland’s performance, not on a night when the Cavs actually showed a pulse at that end of the floor.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 24 Oct. 2019
• That slight fall came on the back of the Japanese yen depreciating 9.3% and has largely remained at the mercy of the U.S. dollar since...
  — Anjani Trivedi, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2017
• Our games have seemed to depreciate from the honorable to the flexible, so that drugs and abuse and fraud and dishonesty are all part of the greater landscape.
  — Bernie Lincicome, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2017
• The reason: The value of running backs has depreciated over the years, but would teams deem Robinson too valuable to pass up?
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
• Since the trade war began last year, the currency has depreciated by around 12% against the US dollar.
  — Laura He, CNN, 19 Dec. 2019
• Cars generally depreciate by the end of the first year at around 20–30 percent.
  — Megan Ditrolio, Marie Claire, 19 July 2021
• Cars depreciate most in value during the first year of ownership—up to 20%.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2023
• China has also allowed the yuan to depreciate to its lowest levels in more than a decade in recent weeks.
  — Laura He, CNN, 16 Sep. 2019
• If your roof is 10 years old, for example, it would be depreciated by 10 years.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2018
• The ariary may depreciate by 3.7% against the dollar on average next year.
  — Kamlesh Bhuckory, Bloomberg.com, 21 Nov. 2020
• The won will probably depreciate with the Chinese yuan if and when the currency breaks through the symbolic seven line.
  — Mike Bird, WSJ, 24 June 2019
• Inflation is on the rise, and the currency is depreciating against the dollar.
  — Sabrina Karim, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
• Whereas Ms Shelton has called for a strong dollar, Mr Trump gets irate when other countries seek to depreciate against it.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Solar projects depreciate over six years, a point at which their owners often sell or donate them.
  — Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
• When yields rise, financial conditions tend to be tighter, so demand for the local currency falls and the currency depreciates against the dollar (at least in the short term).
  — Agustín Carstens, Foreign Affairs, 15 Mar. 2019
• As a result, software code itself is depreciating in value.
  — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024