How to Use degeneration in a Sentence

degeneration

noun
  • How would lawyers adapt to the degeneration of the rule of law?
    — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2019
  • This degeneration is a common cause of knee pain in older adults.
    — Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2024
  • His doctor found further degeneration of his hips and his spine.
    — John Sowell, idahostatesman, 23 Apr. 2018
  • This form of macular degeneration is by far the most common kind.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 May 2017
  • Hernandez was found to have early degeneration of brain cells and large tears in a central membrane of the brain.
    — Tina Burnside, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
  • James turned forty-one at the end of that month, an age at which many people start to notice the normal degeneration of their tendons and joints.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
  • More than 20 of them have been linked to the rare, severe degeneration that can cause childhood blindness.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 8 May 2018
  • With the tether, surgeons say, patients can keep their range of motion without the risk of disc degeneration.
    — Kate Snow, NBC news, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The cause was senile degeneration of the brain, said a daughter, Kathryn Baird.
    — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
  • This wear and tear is called disc degeneration, the Mayo Clinic explains.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 11 Sep. 2018
  • This approach works regardless of what caused the degeneration, as long as there are healthy retinal cells available to take up the new opsin gene.
    — Caroline Seydel, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • It is often caused by degeneration of the cervical disks, but can also be a result of trauma.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Our minds play tricks on us, so that signs of degeneration can go unnoticed for years and then come into focus as harbingers of doom.
    — Rachael Bedard, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2022
  • These transplants also don’t work for people at the end stages of degeneration, who have lost the outer layer of their retinas.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2017
  • Sudden acquired retinal degeneration syndrome turned off the lights in a matter of weeks.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 20 July 2022
  • Many had lost most of their teeth or suffered periodontal disease and joint degeneration.
    — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Covering this degeneration for the last year and a half has stressed me beyond any expectation.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 1 June 2018
  • The cause was senile degeneration of the brain, said a son, Peter Siebentritt.
    — Benjamin Gordon, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The cause was senile degeneration of the brain, said a daughter, Marta Bosworth.
    — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Once the degeneration of the cartilage lining a joint begins, there is no treatment available to restore it.
    — Gina Kolata, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
  • It is characterized by the gradual breakdown, degeneration, and changes in the discs over time.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2023
  • These supplements, which claim to boost memory and focus and protect your brain from degeneration, have gotten lots of buzz.
    — Maridel Reyes, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2018
  • For years, the prevailing hypothesis was that a buildup of plaques called amyloids in the brain caused mental degeneration.
    — Jeremy Abbate, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Often, the first signs of neuron degeneration happen in the olfactory cortex of the brain—the part that controls your sense of smell.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The compound makes up 15% of your brain’s fats and may also reduce the risk of cognitive decline and brain degeneration.
    — Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The cause was senile degeneration of the brain, said a daughter, Katherine Shorey Herold.
    — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The muscles affected initially vary from person to person, as does the rate of degeneration.
    — New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
  • This notion of degeneration owes something to Plato, for whom the visible world is a copy of the eternal forms and mimetic art a copy of that copy.
    — Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Those drivers cause degeneration of the nervous system, specifically the neurons in the brain that erode when disease strikes.
    — Samantha J. Gross, miamiherald, 20 June 2017
  • Body horror is a subset of the horror film genre that depicts the destruction, degeneration or mutation of the human body.
    — Beth Younger, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2023

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