Example Sentences

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Over the past two years, the lush greenery of the marshes has degenerated and yellowed, killed by salinity building up from two years of insufficient fresh-water inflow.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2022

“Instead, the tradition has degenerated into cheap reality TV. What flickered across TV screens was the image of a country in chaos.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2020

But today this has degenerated as we see a reprise of the very narrow conception of liberty that Dewey and his contemporaries attacked as outmoded and out of step with the modern world.

From Salon • May 31, 2020

“I really lament the fact the organization founded by Tiananmen Square leaders and intellectuals has degenerated to such a miserable state,” said Mr. Chen, the University of West Australia professor.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2019

I have no hesitation in stating that the human race has degenerated and is still progressing in a downward direction.

From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston