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.
The report was critical of the lack of action by governments across the world in protecting the environment from being degraded. Times, Sunday Times
Blackened and degraded by centuries of dust and dirt, they emerged in a remarkable state of preservation that gives an excellent idea of their intended flamboyance.
Growing cities, overuse of fertilizers, and factories that heedlessly dump wastewater have degraded China's water supplies to the extent that half the nation's rivers and lakes are severely polluted.
But to get back to the criticism: Games are flashy, degraded, violent little entertainments for adolescent boys.
Blind image restoration is to recover the original image form the observed degraded image with unknown the Point Spread Function (PSF).
The wild type molecule at the cell surface cycles from the membrane to sacs within the cell interior called endocytic vesicles where it may be degraded.
Victims of sexual harassment often feel degraded.
The CCC thus saw the atrophied bodies of those joining the program much as it viewed cutover forests and eroded soils: as a degraded natural resource in dire need of conservation.
UV-Vis spectrum indicated that the phenyl structure and naphthyl structure of methyl orange were destroyed, methyl orange solution was degraded.
Heat death will occur when all the energy of the cosmos has been degraded to random heat energy, with random motions of molecules and uniform low-level temperatures.
If we keep this mighty nation one and inseparable, we shall have answered it forever; if not, why then those who revile man as vile and irreclaimably degraded may raise their pæans of triumph; the black spectres of antique tyrants may clap their hands gleefully in the land of accursed shadows, and hell hold high carnival, for, verily, it would seem as if they had triumphed, and that hope were a lie. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Some local residents advocate pre-emptive privatization of degraded communal lands to protect these areas from municipal encroachment.
The project will reforest old crop fields and pastures and an abandoned rock quarry that has degraded over the years.
All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul. Little Dorrit
It is simply titaniferous iron, iserine, pleonaste, ilmenite [Footnote: Or peroxide of iron, with 8 to 23 per cent, of blue oxide of titanium.] and degraded itabirite, the iron and quartz formation so called in the Brazil; and it is the same mineral which To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
The fashion for equating chimps with children is based on a degraded view of humanity and an ignorance about animals.
Hafner and Ardea have laid bare two detestable souls, the one of an infamous usurer, half German, half Dutch; the other of a degraded nobleman, in whom is revived some ancient 'condottiere'. The French Immortals Series — Complete
Indeed, in the absence of amylase starch is not degraded, and anoxia-intolerant cereals such as wheat and barley suffer soon from sugar starvation, and eventually die.
In some areas of Argentina, the Andean degraded caespitose (growing in dense tufts) herbaceous vegetation with open stands of dwarf shrubs includes Acantholippia hastulata, Adesmia horridiuscula, Baccharis incanum, Ephedra breana, Fabiana densa, Junellia seriphioides, Psila boliviensis, Senicio viridis, and Tetraglochin cristatum. Central Andean dry puna
The Abbe chanced one day to be in company with my husband, who was an old acquaintance of his, where many of the chopfallen deputies, like themselves, true lovers of their country, could not help declaring their indignation at its degraded state, and reprobating Bonaparte for rendering it so ridiculous in the face of Europe and the world. Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 7
But the idea that a woman cannot be expected to cope with going into a witness box, where she will be publicly identified, is equally stereotypical: it implies a degraded notion of weak and timorous women.
The doctrines which the sages had associated with the idea of Serapis, debased and degraded by the most contemptible trivialities; lost all their worth and dignity; and after the great Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
As for “degraded performance all over the place”, enforced net neutrality and a ban on traffic-shaping for whatever reason would concentrate the “degraded services” to those which are time-sensitive, such as streaming video and remote stuff like telesurgery, AND put the State in a position to mandate how fast/slow packets are “permitted” to travel. DPI is GOOD for you: ‘Um – crap’
Under the assumption that landforms unaffected by drainage channels are degraded according to the linear diffusion equation, a procedure is developed to invert a scarp profile to find its ‘diffusion age.’
He was degraded from the grandeeship and exiled to the Philippines.
The land here is degraded, monocultural olive groves, ecologically wrecked by big farmers and largely devastated by the fires of 2007 which ironically helped developers. Grand ambitions: ecoluxury in Greece
They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and "devilry" as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
The dolphin's habitat is being rapidly degraded.
They are free certainly, but they are also degraded, rejected, the offscum and the offscouring of the very dregs of your society .... American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
A strange contradiction emerged as the art was praised while those who created it were degraded.
We believe that overall each of those remaining four divisions has been significantly attrited to this point, significantly degraded. CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2003
He was degraded from his orders, and being even in danger of assassination, took refuge with Douglas of Longniddry, and there remained until the end of 1545
As for “degraded performance all over the place”, enforced net neutrality and a ban on traffic-shaping (for whatever reason) would concentrate the “degraded services” to those which are time-sensitive, such as streaming video and remote stuff like telesurgery, AND put the State in a position to mandate how fast/slow packets are “permitted” to travel. DPI is GOOD for you: ‘Um – crap’
Thus whilst the wife and the lover were conjoined as much as might be, the hocussed and sleeping husband was dismissed (ma'zul = degraded) like a nunnation dropped in construction. Arabian nights. English
Sacred bovids, beginning with the fecund cow and advancing to the virile bull, were finally degraded to mere substance in the hands of humanized deities.
But the same difficulty has been experienced in effecting this union which has been experienced in forming a second chambereither the spiritual power has usurped upon the civil, and established a sacerdotal society, or the civil power has invaded successfully the rights of the spiritual, and the ministers of religion have been degraded into stipendiaries of the State and instruments of the government. On the Principles of His Party
An unspeakably peaked-looking shoeless fellow wrapped with bandages in a degraded state, approached me.
They make lots of city people look very degraded indeed.
He was degraded from his dukedom in 1399, and was beheaded in January of the following year for conspiring against Henry IV.
Molecular dimers are assumed to be not directly degraded.
We have always said this needs to be degraded and destroyed. The Sun
This is a degraded view of the public.
The Peer said: ‘We are degraded by what is being done in our name.’
As you get older, the collagen in your body is naturally degraded: so the skin gradually begins to lose its fullness and elasticity, leading to wrinkles.
There is nothing holy which is not desecrated, which is not degraded to a mean end among this people. Uncollected Prose
The purse-lipped PhD People in charge think tv, movies and pop music are degraded and evil.
In apoptosis, DNA is degraded into oligonucleotides with a few hundreds of basepairs that subsequently diffuse out of the nucleus.
June 21st, 2006 at 7: 42 pm unbelievable says: approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent Think Progress » Santorum: We Found the WMD
In almost every order we find some plants which have become thus reduced or degraded for wind or self-fertilisation, as Poterium and Sanguisorba among the Rosaceae; while this has certainly been the case in the cleistogamic flowers. Darwinism (1889)
However, accuracy of the position estimate by triangulation may be degraded depending on array geometry and rover location, the well known dilution of precision.
I felt degraded by having to ask for money.
The weed lantana, for example, has degraded more than four million hectares of Australian rangelands. Biodiversity 100: actions for Australia
Whereas the anticholinesterase compounds, which have high acute toxicity (and hence are highly hazardous to the applicator), are readily and rapidly degraded in nature, the halogenated hydrocarbons are not. Rachel Carson’s Victims, R.I.P.
He was degraded from director to assistant director.
The pope and the sacred college had never been dazzled by his specious professions; they were justly offended by the insolence of his conduct; a cardinal legate was sent to Italy, and after some fruitless treaty, and two personal interviews, he fulminated a bull of excommunication, in which the tribune is degraded from his office, and branded with the guilt of rebellion, sacrilege, and heresy. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Pagan or Chris - tian allegorism of myth is dismissed or degraded as wrongly dignifying myth or else ignoring history in favor of mystery. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Everything tends to lose its hallowed meaning; it becomes degraded, bestialized. South Wind
Virtually all of the carbohydrate accumulated as starch and sucrose during the day was degraded at night.
The next bit of land then becomes degraded and then there's no green belt. Times, Sunday Times
Students use standard procedures to qualify saline and sodic soils, observe salt and sodium effects on water percolation, and conduct a bioassay of incrementally-degraded soils with plants of varying salt-tolerance.
We would be forwarding to listeners an already degraded signal.
The progenitor cell loses its nucleus, and most of its intracellular membranes are degraded; the now non-nucleated form of the cell, termed a reticulocyte, then loses its ribosomes, thus preventing any further synthesis of haemoglobin. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
By some instinct I told them at once about James Hinton, whom, of course, they knew by name as the first aurist of his day; how, with all that this life could give him, he had died of a broken heart, a heart broken over the lost and degraded womanhood of England, the hosts of young girls slain in body and soul whom he met with at night in our terrible streets. The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis
The Ceratonia siliqua tree layer in particular is so degraded that it is only represented by a few individuals. Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
It degraded the whole of colonial society, both felonry and free.
The research contents of the paper mainly involve the driving force analysis of degraded ecosystem, assessment of degraded ecosystem as well as degraded ecosystem restoration and rehabilitation study.
Otherwise, our higher education system will become steadily more degraded.
In Vermont streams, one or more of the tolerant, eurythermal species (blacknose dace, white sucker, and creek chub) are often found in the same stream reach as are the coldwater species in least-degraded streams.
The tranquillity of countless thousands of people will be harmed, homes will be bulldozed and air quality degraded. Times, Sunday Times
The mica does not everywhere present this coarsely crystalline appearance, but in flexures and lines of union with the quartz and orthoclase is degraded to a mica schist upon whose surfaces appear uranates of lime and copper (autunite and torbernite), and in which are inclosed garnet crystals of considerable size and beauty. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
They were unaware that a degraded environment leads to a scramble for scarce resources and may culminate in poverty and even war.
Reading from a declassified portion of a report by the National Ground Intelligence Center, a Defense Department intelligence unit, Santorum said: Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. June 2006
To feel humiliated and degraded is not what you signed up for.
'The term mulatto,'" he read, "'is not invariably applicable to every admixture of African blood with the European, nor is one having all the features of a white to be ranked with the degraded class designated by the laws of this State as persons of color, because of some remote taint of the negro race. The House Behind the Cedars
Most such sanctuaries have either been encroached on or have been completely degraded.
Their message about humanity is even more degenerate and degraded than that spouted by the previous administration.
Given the present degraded state of the film industry, its subject matter, this is nearly a provocation.
A 17-year-old said he felt "degraded".
As the polyurethane, which is made from petroleum, degraded, the number of fungi increased as they digested the byproducts, showing that it was indeed the fungi that were breaking down the plastic. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Culture or civilization in a degraded state of sentimentality and vulgarity.
The diverseness and conflict of the fusion information are managed effectively; meanwhile, the uncertainty, non-integrality and indefiniteness are degraded.
Thus previously authoritarian government officials joined with previously suspicious villagers to successfully regenerate the degraded sal forests of southwestern Bengal.
I was sat down and what you call degraded, so to say, for no apparent reason. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
Yet this process of degradation does not destroy its object; rather, the degraded object finds renewal in the regenerative, positive aspect of the fecund and fecal body.
Thus whilst the wife and the lover were conjoined as much as might be, the hocussed and sleeping husband was dismissed (ma’zul = degraded) like a nunnation dropped in construction. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life; I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain.
Energy is always degraded to a less useful form.
You said that was an amply sufficient qualification, and that no aquatic reporter who respected himself and his readers, had ever so far degraded himself as to row in a boat and to place his body in any of the absurd positions which modern oarsmanship demands. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891
Wars should result in improved security for an affected nation's citizens, but often result in degraded or deteriorated social conditions.
Europe and England "have dropped beyond the level of the most degraded and unpleasant African tribe that it is possible to find," he wrote to his mother shortly after the Munich Pact of 1938. Drawn to Harsh Places
The actress could have been degraded by the exploitation material, but somehow she punches through the stereotypes and retains her dignity and poise.
I am satisfied it was named by the Diggers -- those degraded savages who roast their dead relatives, then mix the human grease and ashes of bones with tar, and 'gaum' it thick all over their heads and foreheads and ears, and go caterwauling about the hills and call it The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Town
By the first week in June, French rail and road communications had been seriously degraded.
In Washington, they favor degraded or otherwise gravelly soils.
They essentially consist in transferring power from nature to man, leaving nature degraded and depleted in the process.
Some local residents advocate pre-emptive privatization of degraded communal lands to protect these areas from municipal encroachment.
Bro also gets degraded by other schoolchildren, something pop captures on film as it helps boost his ratings.
No. You have sent them to us with their arms reversed, their shields broken, their impresses defaced, -- and so displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed, such unfeathered two-legged things, that we no longer know them. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
Religion has oppressed women, and degraded women for ages and ages, since the beginning of times.
He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship, to the lowest depth of the most snubbed henpeckery. Oliver Twist
Unfortunately, the FERC continues to approve new dam construction in degraded river basins and appears poised to begin relicensing existing projects without due regard for river health or adequate protection and mitigation for fish and wildlife. Letters
Problems included lack of aid, degraded water systems and unexploded bombs.
All nature takes pity upon this degraded and charming thing that you call a hovel, and welcomes it. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
We have tried to reinfuse words like freedom and rights with the power they once had, but they have become too degraded by overuse.
It is not affected by diet, reutilized, nor degraded further.
Oil-importing countries are considering the production of biodiesel from physic nut or jatropha grown on degraded land.
Soil and water quality have been seriously degraded.
Degraded nitrogenous compounds, mainly amino acids, are translocated to other organs, leading to reduction in the leaf nitrogen content.
We have always said this needs to be degraded and destroyed. The Sun
Blind Image Restoration is the process of estimating both the true image and the blur from the degraded image characteristic using partial information about the imaging system.
Of course, Chesnutt exposes the fictiveness of a degraded black essentialism in Dr. Miller's upward mobility.
As ripening progresses, fruit colour changes from green to red as chloroplasts are transformed into chromoplasts, chlorophyll is degraded and carotenoids accumulate.
He also talks about the fact that the Agency's capabilities, in human intelligence and otherwise, were degraded over the years.
They feel humiliated and degraded, says an irked senior commander.
Review of example chromatographs for Hb O-Arab in the published literature shows the presence of this minor peak.2-5 It is assumed that this minor peak is glycosylated Hb O-Arab or possibly a degraded product of this hemoglobin.
Decades of harmful land use practices have degraded water quality in much of the species' historic habitat, leaving only a few remnant populations.
Well third quarter Engine / Mobile sales were slower than our historical growth averages, it was an improvement over the prior two quarters of the year and we are degradedly optimistic this trend will continue. China Stocks News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha
I felt insulted, degraded, and objected vigorously.
_Poterium sanguisorba_ is anemophilous; and _Sanguisorba officinalis_ presumably was so formerly, but has reacquired an entomophilous habit; the whole tribe Poterieae being, in fact, a degraded group which has descended from Potentilleae. Darwinism (1889)
Much casual semiwild landscape that supported bees has been destroyed, degraded and fragmented. Times, Sunday Times
She replied that they will import it from economically desperate Albania — which, of course, means that it will be another case of the rich exploiting the poor to maintain their quality of life and the exploited is left with a degraded landscape. Sand Wars
Competitive eating, like world federation wrestling, is a sport for our degraded times.
The marsh canals are unreclaimed through fear of the effect on groundwater, and stone quarries which provide work but have degraded much of the south side of the Park still operate. Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia
BP bombarded the media with a stream of visual, diagrammatic and other information as Hayward toured the degraded beaches of the southern US to show his concern. Embattled Tepco faces its BP moment over Fukushima nuclear disaster
To Bolívar and his audience, enslavement is the most degraded state of being, and renders it "difficult to enjoy liberty. London-Kingston-Caracas: The Transatlantic
deplorably dissipated and degraded
a knife the Scotch highlanders call a skean-dhu, sharp-pointed as a needle, sharp-edged as a razor, and with one blow of it he had cleft her heart, and she never cried or laughed any more in that body whose charms she had degraded to the vile servitude of her vanity. Thomas Wingfold, Curate
They showed that quinotoxine could be degraded to a compound called homomeroquinene, and then they demonstrated the reverse synthesis of homomeroquinene to quinotoxine.
Each time the soil is ploughed or cultivated and exposed to more oxygen and high temperatures the existing organic material is degraded.
So Dominique and Hannelore excavated a trench perpendicular to the eastern part of the NW necropolis, which is interpreted as a degraded active normal fault plane. Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Seismological Studies Report 1
On the other hand, the slender filaments, versatile anthers, powdery pollen, and elongated protogynous style are features of other species indicating anemophily; while the presence of a degraded corolla shows its ancestors to have been entomophilous. Darwinism (1889)
The Party is being degraded by its acceptance of secret donations.
He added that the Austrian people had to feel "degraded" by such treatment.
Mangrove as a ecosystem have unique structure and function . For the degraded of mangrove ecosystem , it's a important way to improve kinds of the organism through restoration and rehabilitation .
What we think we're seeing them do is move to reinforce other forces that have already been significantly degraded or attrited at this point. CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2003
Able to survive extremely degraded water quality, they can live in areas where other fish have been pushed out by pollution.
If enough plant cells die, the sugar beet's leaves will exhibit the disease's characteristic spots, which are actually colonies of fungi feeding on degraded plant material.
The Wanderer," pitying the fortunes and miseries of the author, yet his ungovernable temper and depraved propensities, which led to his embruing his hands in blood, his ingratitude to his patrons and benefactors, (but chiefly to Pope,) and his degraded misemployment of talents which might have raised him to the capital of the proud column of intellect of that day, -- all conduce to petrify the tear of mingled mercy and compassion, which the misfortunes of such a being might otherwise demand. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829
Pop's brashness, its refusal of painterliness, its scale and its willingness to work with even the most degraded elements of consumer culture all found a responsive echo in his subsequent painting.
In the Philippines, for instance, nearly a quarter of cropland is degraded.
The exposed dark wood of the coffins had degraded but they were basically undamaged.
And in some situations reclaimed land is already degraded and faces long-standing feral animal or weed infestation problems and future risks.
If we see the earth bleeding from the loss of topsoil, biodiversity, or drought and desertification, and if we help reclaim or save what is lost -- for instance, through regeneration of degraded forests -- the planet will help us in our self-healing and indeed survival. Wangari Maathai: Spiritual Environmentalism: Healing Ourselves by Replenishing the Earth
Degraded sites, conversely, are dominated by the tolerant, eurythermal species: blacknose dace and creek chub.
They believed themselves descended from demigods whose divinity had degraded through centuries of interbreeding with lesser races.
Mangrove as a ecosystem have unique structure and function . For the degraded of mangrove ecosystem , it's a important way to improve kinds of the organism through restoration and rehabilitation .
They don't give us a discount to compensate for the degraded shopping experience.
Because PVC is degraded by light, it requires a minimum of 12 inches of clean soil cover placed over the liner to function as designed.
The paupers of Glasgow were 'excrescent,' and the 'gluts' were visible in the commercial crises which had thrown numbers of poor weavers out of employment and degraded them into permanent paupers. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
I degraded myself for letting him catch me like that and than letting my voice crack.
The tranquillity of countless thousands of people will be harmed, homes will be bulldozed and air quality degraded. Times, Sunday Times
The sergeant was degraded to buck private.
All of the compliment and complaint beyond the main mission are redundant and if the missioner transmits those unnecessary supplemental his credibility will be degraded by others.
By now the path has degraded into the faintest of trails, partly hidden by leaves, obscured sometimes entirely by masses of tangled roots.
Even in the lower animals, it is a false assumption that its tendency is to elevate; for animals, when driven to the utmost verge of the struggle for life, become depauperated and degraded. What is Darwinism?
Past nonentities degraded themselves and damaged the game's image. The Sun
Khan says at least 40 percent of Kashmir's forests have been degraded during the conflict.
Whenever we are perpetrators or victims of oppression, we feel diminished, degraded, dehumanized.
If we think of comfort as producing the highest type of manhood, so sure as we do, our spiritual power will lessen, our spiritual faculty will be atrophied, our spiritual speech will be degraded, and we shall talk in materialistic language which will really be a sign of decay rather than of power. Present Conditions in Great Britain
Prisoners, he conceded, often felt worse for the experience, feeling degraded and punished.
Note: Deducting ten points together makes a grade of moral quality degraded.
They are free certainly but they are also degraded, rejected, the offscum and the offscouring of the very dregs of your society; they are free from the chain, the whip, the enforced task and unpaid toils of slavery; but they are not the less under a ban. "[ The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917
Restoration and rehabilitation of degraded vegetation in mountainous land are pressing jobs in view of the strategy of sustainable development of forestry and agriculture.
It is the very essence of gentlemanhood that one is polite to the weak, the poor, the friendless, the humble, the miserable, the degraded. Life and Conduct
The editors explore some of the significant Cold War events and issues that scarred a generation of Australians and degraded the national political culture with simplistic certitudes.
Real love, he asks; not the degraded things to which men give that great name, as to every passing gust of feeling, to every unworthy untamed emotion: but the divine quality, when to the "lastingness," which he requires, is also joined that which is the inner essence of Love, viz., sacrifice. The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises
The over-tightening compressed and degraded small pieces of composite material, called shims, that are used routinely to fill small gaps when assembling structural parts. The Seattle Times
This leads to a decayed and degraded society where crime and immorality becomes widespread and injustice becomes the norm. Times, Sunday Times
For these critics, public indifference was a mark of distinction, a sign of the artist's refusal to pander to the degraded tastes of the crowd.
Recent research has covered restoration of degraded soils using mycorrhizae, the characterization of savannah-forest vegetation, auto-ecology of vegetative species, wildfire effects on floral permanence and composition and atmosphere-biosphere interactions. Canaima National Park, Venezuela
On the two occasions I have heard him perform (on the telescreen, I hasten to add), what I heard was degraded, simple-minded, noisy, tuneless pop wailing.
Use of these drugs is routinely equated with socially degraded status and participation in activities indicative of the code of the streets.
Fresh life is to be breathed into degraded peat moors in the Peak District over the next few weeks by a massive airlift of hundreds of tonnes of heather.
In particular you ought not to call them by a degraded and repulsive nickname, derived quite consciously from one of the most disgusting minor obscenities to be gleaned from the lexicon of pornography. Quotha: A comment upon the procedures of the CBO
A danger exists that they will be objectified and degraded.
The only people in the world to whom it denies these rights are not its quondam slaves, not pagans, not runaway convicts, not the offscourings of any nation however degraded, but the original owners of the country. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
“Was the RNA degraded in the centrifugation step?” The Emperor of All Maladies
The pool will continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.
They branded him ‘degraded, unteachable, unamiable, querulous, and unmanly.’
By his identification with Malinal, Madoc too becomes a figure of hybridity, redeeming the ideal of cultural blending from the degraded regimes of Aztec and English oppression. The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism
We take great delight in mocking her vanity, in snickering at her cluelessness, in seeing her degraded by public sex scandal.
Surrealism was seen as one of the most vilified and degraded forms of cultural and artistic expression.
Does your head ache, or do you feel what I call degraded when someone in the office starts talking to you? Enemies or Teachers
I like how this started out as a thoughtful deliberation of hyphenation usage, then degraded into Three Stooges-like antics complete with head konk, and then an Apatow-yell (similar to a rebel yell but funnier and far more intelligent). Theater Hopper - July 30: I Probably Shouldn't Be Critiquing Grammar « FirstShowing.net
The Party is being degraded by its acceptance of secret donations.
The man took command in the home also; the woman was degraded and reduced to servitude; she became a mere instrument for the production of children.
Even those single molecules must be further degraded by sunlight or slow oxidative breakdown before their constituents can be recycled into the building blocks of life.
So Linden, feeling utterly crushed and degraded, swallowed all that remained of his pride and went like a beaten dog to see the relieving officer, who took him before the Board, who did not think it a suitable case for out-relief, and after some preliminaries it was arranged that Linden and his wife were to go into the workhouse, and Mary was to be allowed three shillings a week to help her to support herself and the two children. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Blind Image Restoration is the process of estimating both the true image and the blur from the degraded image characteristic using partial information about the imaging system.
Cardamine tangutorum wild vegetable planted artificially could markedly improve the biomass of degraded ecosystem,(sentence dictionary) and this kind of wild vegetable is more suitable for growing in the forest.

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