degenerate

Example Sentences

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A subtle pathos, along with the playwright’s verbal sophistication, prevents the play from degenerating into a collegiate vaudeville.”

From Los Angeles Times

Fascism is always an ideology based on the belief that modern society has become weak and degenerate, and that the cure is purging certain people.

From Salon

“We’re getting into those things before there’s so much damage that the native tissue is completely degenerated,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

They quickly discovered a waste-internalizing glial canal system that undergoes structural abnormalities in degenerating spider brains, which leads to uncontrolled depletion and death of brain cells.

From Science Daily

In contrast, workers are wingless females with smaller body size and degenerated reproductive tracts, usually without a sperm storage organ.

From Science Daily