How to Use deterioration in a Sentence

deterioration

noun

• Besides rapid deterioration of visibility, roads can also go from being dry one minute to rapidly snow-covered the next.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2022
• Just about every one of these reports contains a passage noting the appalling deterioration of middle-class wages in the United States.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2022
• China has also blamed the U.S. for the deterioration of relations.
  — Jeva Lange, The Week, 24 Feb. 2022
• The only deterioration is on the sole, where the grippy nubs have started to wear off in some areas.
  — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2023
• The deterioration of Card’s mental health has been examined in the weeks and months since the shooting.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
• Well, so there’s where maybe some of the deterioration comes into play.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 7 June 2023
• When seed is in wet soil for prolonged periods of time, some – or all – of the seed can be lost to deterioration or rotting.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 27 Jan. 2023
• For young people, the most alarming trend is a deterioration in the number of jobs for those just starting out in a career.
  — Isabella Ward, Fortune Europe, 8 Apr. 2024
• There will be a slow deterioration of the quality of our lives.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
• Peltier also suffered a stroke, one of the many things Sharp said has led to a deterioration of his mental health.
  — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2024
• Short is among those who blame the West for the deterioration of relations with Russia.
  — Angela Stent, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• The point wasn’t to sanitize the deterioration of the planet.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
• Such incoherence points to the kind of deterioration that was not known to have plagued Franklin or Rehnquist at Biden’s age.
  — Ezekiel J. Emanuel, The Atlantic, 5 July 2024
• Adding in the weak fundamentals and the stock price deterioration produces the popular view that DJT is a stock to avoid.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• The question now is whether Fed rate cuts will do the trick in stopping that deterioration from going much further.
  — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
• The patient is now on two of these drugs, and the deterioration of his physical abilities has stopped.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2022
• Fandom played a part in the deterioration of these women’s lives.
  — Taylor Crumpton, TIME, 13 Sep. 2024
• Many unused pools across the country are showing signs of deterioration, with weeds springing up in cracks in the concrete.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2022
• The anogeissus helps to protect against the deterioration of the skin’s fibrin, which promotes long-term elasticity of the skin.
  — Olivia Hanson, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
• The surgery offered some relief from the tremors, but the deterioration continued.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023
• Quartz’s Rocio Fabbro explains why the index has gotten so bad so quickly and why the Fed might think the deterioration is just noise.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2024
• Both signals showed deterioration on the opposite side of the house (the furthest from the extender).
  — PCMAG, 15 July 2024
• Mass layoffs, dispersed work, and high turnover are all factors thought to have led to the deterioration of trust between leaders and their reports.
  — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 20 July 2023
• The pope, 85, has revisited the topic of old age and deterioration many times in recent years.
  — Fox News, 30 July 2022
• Looking ahead, the deterioration in consumer sentiment is likely to persist throughout the first half of the year, at least.
  — Natalie Berg, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• Sending pulses from both combs at the same time through the link can eliminate any deterioration in timing precision due to the cables or the air.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2023
• The stagnant weather has trapped smoke from the Nakia Creek fire near ground level, causing the deterioration in air quality.
  — oregonlive, 19 Oct. 2022
• Lipid peroxidation is the process that causes the deterioration of the cell lipids by ROS, which at medium or high rates is toxic.
  — New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2024
• The deterioration in Volkswagen’s prospects point to worsening conditions in the private sector in Germany.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
• On Saturday, jurors sat through hours of silent footage showing Allen's mental deterioration at Westville.
  — Ron Wilkins, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024