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How to use degraded in a sentence

30 example sentences · adjective

Degraded means feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect. Example: “Aged and degraded oil and grease can really gum up the works.”

More sentences with degraded

  • Aged and degraded oil and grease can really gum up the works.From the entry works
  • Or had the combination of Category 5 winds and overtourism left behind a degraded Eden?2024 December 2, Shannon Sims, “Chilling Out in Coral Bay, Where Even Flip-Flops Are Optional”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry backwatery
  • We applied abliteration to Daredevil-8B to uncensor it, which also degraded the model's performance.2024 June 13, Maxime Labonne, “Uncensor any LLM with abliteration”, in Hugging Face Blog, retrieved 29 May 2025. From the entry abliteration
  • The opposite of gentrification—call it shabbification—would emerge, as city housing stock becomes more and more degraded.2019 May 20, Howard Husock, “Legislating Shabbiness”, in City Journal, archived from the original on 20 May 2019. From the entry shabbification
  • Histidine was extensively degraded by rumen micro‐organisms, while tyrosine was the most anti‐degradable AA among the samples.2016, W Gao, B Zhang, B Lv, C Liu, D Chen, “Ruminal degradability and intestinal digestibility of individual amino acids in mixed diets…. From the entry anti-degradable
  • The lipooligosaccharide was degraded both by mild hydrazinolysis (O -deacylation) and by acetic acid hydrolysis.2015 July 22, Angela Casillo et al., “Structural Investigation of the Oligosaccharide Portion Isolated from the Lipooligosaccharide of the…. From the entry hydrazinolysis
  • Archive film materials are particularly degraded by blotch, scratch, flicker and noise.2005, Pinar Yolum, Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2005, →ISBN. From the entry blotch
  • "As evidence of the degraded nature of the prisoner's mind," said Quin.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 127. From the entry work up
  • The patient drank heavily for fifteen years and reach a degraded condition."1910 March 5, “Orrine Does Cure Drunkenness”, in Daily Times, USA, page 2. From the entry inebriacy
  • Wearing make-up made her feel "very degraded and very demeaned."2019, Zachary Kramer, Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights, page 20. From the entry demeaned
  • Whether it is degraded and newly synthesized or dispersed throughout the cytoplasm and subsequently reaggregated at the spindle is not known.2015 July 14, “TACC3 Is Important for Correct Progression of Meiosis in Bovine Oocytes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry reaggregate
  • Without urgent action, the majority of the Earth’s topsoil could be severely degraded or lost before the end of this century.2013, Al Gore, “Outgrowth”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry topsoil
  • “Was the RNA degraded in the centrifugation step?”2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 339. From the entry centrifugation
  • When solutions of arabic acid are warmed in water, a unique polysaccharide gum called degraded gum arabic is produced.2010 January 2, NIIR Board, Gums, Adhesives & Sealants Technology (with Formulae & their Applications) 2nd Edition, ASIA PACIFIC BUSINESS…. From the entry arabic
  • We degraded cell walls using a lytic enzyme (Yatalase).2009 January 22, T Kikuchi, N Karim, H Masuya, Y Ota, T Kubono, “An inexpensive high-throughput method to extract high yields of good…. From the entry yatalase
  • Pomaceous and stone fruits can be degraded by a number of pathogenic species including Monilia laxa, M. fructigena and Rhizopus stolonifer.2007, “Association of moulds to foods”, in Jan Dijksterhuis, Robert A. Samson, editors, Food Mycology: A Multifaceted Approach to Fungi…. From the entry pomaceous
  • This type of structure is provided by gases that are released when a third material, the spumific, is pyrolytically degraded.1973, Pigment Handbook: Applications and markets, page 131. From the entry spumific
  • Plastic in the ocean is constantly being degraded; even something as big and buoyant as a milk jug will eventually shed and splinter into microplastics.2022 April 3, Sabrina Imbler, “In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05…. From the entry plastisphere
  • That the people of Rome were able to indulge this degenerate desire was merely due to the degraded status of the professional gladiator.2010, Alison Futrell, Blood in the Arena: The Spectacle of Roman Power, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry blood
  • The book, Calhoun says, incorporates ideas, in grossly degraded form, from a feminist "zinefest" subculture that had inspired her in her youth.2007 April 22, “Nonfiction Chronicle”, in New York Times. From the entry zinefest
  • Previous studies of the thermal behavior of corium in a degraded nuclear reactor have focussed primarily on the process of heat transfer within the corium.1991, Sheau-Wen Shiah, Fan-bill B. Cheung, Dae-Ho Cho, Michael J. Tan, Louis Baker Jr., “Numerical Modeling of Corium/Steel Structure…. From the entry corium
  • The dividing-line between auratic and non-auratic art by no means coincides with that between authentic art and the administered, degraded art of the culture industry.1984, Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, page 429. From the entry auratic
  • After application, herbicides persist in the soil until they are degraded to less harmful compounds or are removed from the soil by washoff or leaching.1976, Anthony S. Donigian (Jr.), Norman H. Crawford, Modeling Pesticides and Nutrients on Agricultural Lands (page 41). From the entry washoff
  • Leaf felt degraded by that — hiring on, in effect, as an indentured underbreed — but what choice was there for him?1973, Terry Carr, Richard A. Lupoff, Robert Silverberg, No Mind of Man: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction, page 122. From the entry underbreed
  • Perhaps the Socialism Nietzsche had in mind would have degraded the race, as surely as Christianity was already threatening to change man into Netherman.1915, Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, The New age: a weekly review of politics, literature and art. From the entry netherman
  • But while my irritation with them faded, my sense that our public spaces are being degraded by a hyper-individualistic culture that has lost its sense of community did not.2026 August 16, Jemima Kelly, “Can we stop with the public ‘blasterbating’, actually?”, in Financial Times. From the entry envyscroll
  • Dicarboxylic acids such as hexadecanedioate, produced by ω-oxidation in the endoplasmic reticulum and peroxisome and then degraded via β-oxidation, were also enriched in the plasma of postnatally CD piglets.2015 July 22, “Moderate Perinatal Choline Deficiency Elicits Altered Physiology and Metabolomic Profiles in the Piglet”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry hexadecanedioate
  • It identified 24 categories of such services, finding that 15 are being degraded or used unsustainably, 4 have been enhanced, and the remaining 5 are unevaluatable.2009 February 6, Robert M. May, Paul H. Harvey, “Species Uncertainties”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI. From the entry unevaluatable
  • Probably no other country could produce such a degraded type as the squireen or buckeen, the drunken, gambling, profligate descendant of the Cromwellian or Williamite settler.1917, William Francis Thomas Butler, Confiscation in Irish history, page 248. From the entry squireen
  • Hence, the play abounds with abject or degraded forms of whiteness embodied in characters who use addictive drugs, go combo, commit violent crimes or simply succumb to the tropical heat.2003, Helen Gilbert, “Millennial blues: racism, nationalism and the legacy of empire”, in Elizabeth Schafer, Susan Bradley, editors…. From the entry go combo

Meaning of degraded

  1. adjective Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
  2. adjective Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
  3. adjective Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.

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Questions about degraded in a sentence

How do you use degraded in a sentence?
Degraded is used as an adjective. For example: “Aged and degraded oil and grease can really gum up the works.”
What is a short sentence with degraded?
““Was the RNA degraded in the centrifugation step?””
What does degraded mean?
Degraded means feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.

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