How to Use deteriorate in a Sentence

deteriorate

verb

• Exposure to rain and sun will gradually deteriorate the paint.
• What has caused things to deteriorate so much in the last four years or so?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• When the red bracts start to deteriorate or drop, prune the plants back to eighteen inches above the soil.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Jan. 2022
• Through it all, the Tolowa watched the center of their world deteriorate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• That forced in Houston’s first run, and the inning would deteriorate from there for the Phillies.
  — Scott Miller, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• But few of us have plans in case our minds deteriorate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
• Elsewhere in the episode, Robyn opened up about what caused most of Kody's marriages to deteriorate.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2023
• Without them, rain can go down the flue and deteriorate the mortar joints.
  — Tribune News Service, al, 14 Sep. 2022
• He was also asked how to make sure that AI would not deteriorate the craft of acting over time.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Nov. 2023
• For the artists involved, spray painting the structure was a way to infuse life into a deteriorating area of the city.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• The job market, though, is expected to deteriorate as the Fed’s rate hikes begin to bite.
  — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
• The Arctic ice sheet has shrunk to about half its 1985 size, and as both mariners and scientists on board note, the quality of the ice is deteriorating.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2023
• By the time the plane took off at 8:38 p.m., the sun was setting and the already hazy conditions had further deteriorated.
  — Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 10 July 2024
• Livers can start to deteriorate when preserved on ice for more than eight hours, Bodzin said.
  — Tom Avril, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2023
• Maybe the coil system fails after a year, or the memory foam starts to deteriorate.
  — Elaheh Nozari, Architectural Digest, 12 July 2024
• But if donations deteriorate enough, the downturn would start to endanger some of the school’s key goals.
  — Janet Lorin, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
• But over the past few years, as Jabbar worked to climb the corporate ladder, his life began to deteriorate.
  — NBC News, 4 Jan. 2025
• The outdoor shed has a durable resin construction that won't deteriorate over time.
  — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2023
• An indoor flag may have a fringe (a fringe on an outdoor flag would deteriorate too quickly).
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2022
• The weather will begin to deteriorate throughout the day for parts of the Southwest, marking the start of a multiday fire risk that peaks on Friday with strong winds.
  — Monica Garrett, CNN, 27 Apr. 2022
• Go Dark Light and warmth and can cause quality to quickly deteriorate, so store the bottle out of direct sunlight in a cool, dark place.
  — Annie Peterson, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Jan. 2025
• And the police threw out pepper spray, and things deteriorated from there.
  — Alicia Dennis, Peoplemag, 25 May 2024
• The outdoor shed has a durable resin construction that won't deteriorate over time.
  — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022
• And while Dorsey played a role in Musk’s Twitter takeover, the relationship between the two seems to have deteriorated.
  — Perri Grace, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2023
• The good weather is likely to deteriorate later in the week, as a cyclone off the coast of India is expected to blow inland.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 9 May 2022
• Conditions have deteriorated as the Fed has raised rates, showing signs of stress not seen since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2023
• The left turbocharger oil feed pipe may deteriorate and leak oil.
  — USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
• Heinen’s is looking for the city to add a half percent sales tax to be used to fund an overhaul of the property drainage system that has caused the buildings and parking lot to deteriorate.
  — Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022
• Attempting to redirect the thought of hitting the ball in the water to the thought of hitting it on the green can compound the initial problem, and our skills to execute can deteriorate.
  — Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
• The heightened sense of uncertainty that forced small business confidence to plunge by 50%, labor market conditions to deteriorate, capital spending to stall, and GDP growth forecasts to plummet still remains.
  — Time, 10 Apr. 2025