How to Use degrading in a Sentence

degrading

adjective
  • The way he was treated was inhumane and degrading.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
  • In a degrading battery, the researchers observed two key signs of trouble.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025
  • No one should be subject to listening to the most degrading and profane words that now seem popular with some people.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 16 June 2026
  • Most people acclimate within a week or two, and cotton gets softer with every wash rather than pilling or degrading.
    — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Nowak's father called his son's treatment by police inhumane and degrading.
    — Holly Williams, CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • Sheriff Guidroz said the three inmates removed blocks from a degrading wall in the prison to create a hole, and used sheets to assist them in climbing down a wall and dropping to the ground.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Cotton also gets softer with every wash instead of pilling or degrading — a durability advantage synthetic blends can’t match.
    — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • For Hildegard…women’s maternal bodies were not corrupting and degrading, but strong, nurturing, and creative.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • As advertised, Episode 1 was wildly degrading for contestants and weirdly nostalgic for viewers.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Bosch also emphasized her respect for Thailand and encouraged women not to tolerate degrading treatment.
    — Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 4 Nov. 2025
  • In principle, there is no such thing as intrinsically degrading work; degradation is a cultural phenomenon.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
  • There’s an adjustment period — percale can feel crisp at first — but most people acclimate within a week or two and find cotton softens further with every wash, rather than pilling or degrading like synthetics.
    — Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The mission emphasized that detaining adolescents under such conditions amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The safety alert also offered guidance to students on recognizing possible hazing, including coercion, unsafe or degrading activities, or tasks presented as mandatory for joining a group.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Were Fidel Castro’s efforts to free his people from the degrading influences of foreigners meant to be erased by a president who, instead of allowing Cuba to struggle with its problems, added to them by cutting its oil supply?
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
  • According to the company, the electronic attack variant is intended to provide non-kinetic effects on the battlefield by disrupting and degrading enemy sensors and reconnaissance networks.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 June 2026
  • Amnesty International has said that the use of the death penalty under the new measure could violate the right to life and the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as enshrined in international law.
    — Julia Frankel, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
  • For Hildegard of Bingen, the German mystic, scientist, composer, and philosopher, women’s maternal bodies were not corrupting and degrading, but strong, nurturing, and creative.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Currently the funds spent by governments and the private sector on destroying biodiversty and degrading cosystems like forests and seagrasses are 30 times larger than the flows supporting conservation, restoration and protection of the natural world.
    — Nick Nuttall, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Without real-time monitoring of model performance and key performance indicators (KPIs), teams have no way to prove whether results are actually improving or quietly degrading.
    — Alberto Gimeno, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Former detainees and human rights organizations have documented systematic torture and severe abuses inside the facility, including beatings, electric shocks, suspension by limbs, prolonged stress positions and other degrading treatment.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The viewers are confronted with the testimonies of Sabouni, Mahmoud Kadah, Abdelkafi Alhaj, Mohammad Hamki and Abdelhamid Jadou, all of whom suffered horrific, degrading treatment.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Charles Rolsky, executive director and senior research scientist at the Shaw Institute, a nonprofit focusing on the links between environmental and human health, says that many studies, including his own, suggest PVA can pass through wastewater treatment without completely degrading.
    — Matt Fuchs, Time, 29 Sep. 2025

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