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

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

Pope Francis called for politicians to find "forward-looking solutions to avoid Italy degenerating into sadness".

From BBC

Some Vermonters of mixed French Canadian and Native American heritage, as well as poor, rural, white people, were placed on a state-sanctioned list of “mental defectives” and degenerates and sent to state institutions.

From Seattle Times

Many other locals remain trapped, along with thousands of foreigners, in a city rapidly degenerating into a war zone.

From Reuters