was degenerating
- past progressive of degenerate.
Example Sentences
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As with many people with Alzheimer’s, the man’s hippocampus — a brain region controlling learning and memory — was smaller than average at the time of his death, suggesting that it was degenerating.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2023
Then doctors told them what tests revealed: Their daughter’s brain was degenerating and would continue to do so until she passed away.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2022
But where they tried to wield government power--to remoralize a culture they believed was degenerating before their eyes--they hit a wall.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even as the case against Manuel Noriega was degenerating into a legal three- ring circus, the country he once dominated was mired in a deep slump.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was degenerating into a shirker, a destroyer, a money-maniac, a complainer of other men’s successes.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry
