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

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

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

Is not all literature passing into criticism, just as Athenian literature in the age of Plato was degenerating into sophistry and rhetoric?

From Phaedrus by Jowett, Benjamin