How to Use degradation in a Sentence

degradation

noun
  • English teachers bemoaning the degradation of the language that e-mail and instant messaging have allegedly brought about.
  • Delta 8 is produced in the cannabis plant through the degradation of delta 9.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
  • In fact, his acts went beyond that, to willful degradation.
    — Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The loss or degradation of one of these stopovers can mean disaster for an entire species.
    — Paige Embry, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
  • These three factors will work together to slow down the degradation of the food.
    — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Grave of the Fireflies is about the horrors and degradations of war.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The main threats to the lion’s mane mushroom are loss and degradation of habitat.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Mar. 2026
  • This inevitably leads to a degradation of service.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Girl, is beefing up your follower count worth such depths of self-degradation?
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Aid workers said water that comes from the ground in Gaza is very salty from years of degradation.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Streams that people here rely on to feed their families with salmon show signs of degradation.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2022
  • There were no clear signs of structural or chemical degradation in the atom-thin layer.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
  • That number has dropped to 175 due in part to habitat degradation.
    — Halle Parker | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 15 Jan. 2021
  • What, if anything, can customers do to slow or stop degradation ahead of the microcode update?
    — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 26 July 2024
  • For at least two decades, that habitat work has been used to justify degradation from the many dams on the river.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Or maybe the decades-old computing system is glitching due to degradation over time.
    — Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022
  • But his talent and hockey IQ show no signs of short-term degradation.
    — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • Are the West’s wild horses getting the blame for range degradation caused by livestock?
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Fast charging is the biggest stressor that can lead to faster-than-usual degradation.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 3 Mar. 2026
  • We are then left with a tradeoff of public safety and quality of life and a degradation of our way of life.
    — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The building had long-term degradation from corrosion, too.
    — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 23 June 2026
  • Any map of the Earth today is in effect already a snapshot of a world in rapid degradation.
    — Big Think, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Drunk on power The arc of tyranny bends toward degradation.
    — David Brooks, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Humans can adapt to a lot of things, after all, including the slow degradation of their moral standards.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • The result is silent degradation or dashboard catches.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • This way, all the drug gets circulated throughout the body and avoids degradation in the stomach.
    — Tom Anchordoquy, The Conversation, 17 June 2022
  • The one for the reel on which de Sanctis was working, for instance, told a sad story of degradation.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The brain is 80% water, which contributes to the rapid degradation process.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Writings from the past reveal so much to us—about ourselves as much as about the people of the past, about our progress as well as our degradation.
    — WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Tuvalu has not yet reached the end of this process of salination, destruction, degradation, and demise.
    — Kausea Natano, Time, 28 Sep. 2022

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