Example Sentences

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Repair and protect democracy and we could perhaps claw back its original sins as well as its distortions and degradations.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026

“He’s the guy that we put through a series of degradations and humiliations, but like the Energizer Bunny, he keeps coming back. By braving all of these things, he becomes extremely endearing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2025

Under Hawpe’s leadership, the Courier Journal successfully fought to rein in the excesses and environmental degradations of the mining industry.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2021

The boy keeps thinking of King’s remarks about “the degradations of Jim Crow and the need to transform that degradation into action.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2019

But within our boundaries we, too, drew a line that included our right to bread regardless of the indignities or degradations involved in getting it.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright