degenerating

Example Sentences

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Not to get too philosophical, but everything alive is degenerating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2025

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 • Dec. 3, 2024

That level of organization and conservation of DNA suggests the Y chromosome isn’t degenerating into obsolescence, Jobling says.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2023

Oh, if the war is degenerating into midnight robberies!" cried Madame, "why does not Washington come?

From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston