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How To Use degraded In A Sentence

• I again affirm that I need make no apology for attaching my name to that of one so worthy the esteem of his co-dogs, ay, and co-cats too; for in spite of the differences which have so often raised up a barrier between the members of his race and ours, not even the noblest among us could be degraded by raising a "mew" to the honour of such a thoroughly honest dog. The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too
• It is necessary to design the antenna properly or system performance will be degraded.
• Some materials are better degraded under anaerobic conditions than under aerobic conditions.
• Cardamine tangutorum wild vegetable planted artificially could markedly improve the biomass of degraded ecosystem, and this kind of wild vegetable is more suitable for growing in the forest.
• And our soldiers are degraded and insulted on their own soil.
• The other day in the midst of Port-au-Prince, the great degraded capital city that is my home, I saw a car, an old battered car, a jalopy, falter and sputter and come to a slow halt.
• Interspersed among the spermatozoa are what appear to be the cytoplasmic contents of degraded cells.
• The rough uneven surface of slate can seem quite riven, chipped and degraded.
• For example, degraded scatterometer measurements from QuikScat can still be useful for cross-calibrating the mission's climate data record with measurements from other scatterometers, including the operational EUMETSAT ASCAT instrument, India's recently launched Oceansat-2 and a planned Chinese scatterometer. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
• We have seen no evidence that this degraded fault-line scarp is Holocene active.