DEBASE in a Sentence
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17 example sentences for DEBASE, such as:
1. They debased the value of the dollar.
2. Sport is being debased by commercialism.
3. Some argue that money has debased football.
4. The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.
5. Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
2. Sport is being debased by commercialism.
3. Some argue that money has debased football.
4. The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.
5. Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
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Meanings and Examples of DEBASE
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debase
v. reduce in quality or value; lower in esteem; degrade
Classic Sentence:
1 This is simply saying that the negro mind has been more crushed and debased than the white.
2 Instead of working wickedness by night and growing more debased in the assimilating of it by day, she shall take her place with the other Angels.
3 Madeleine had set were tangled and broken, the methods were adulterated, the products were debased, confidence was killed; the market diminished, for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, bankruptcy arrived.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
4 Caricature has sought again to spoil the quaint beauty of the music, and has filled the air with many debased melodies which vulgar ears scarce know from the real.
5 So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may be, it is easy to find people to perform it.
6 He was just proud enough to demand the most debasing homage of the slave, and quite servile enough to crouch, himself, at the feet of the master.
7 But, as time, and debasing influences, and despair, hardened womanhood within her, and waked the fires of fiercer passions, she had become in a measure his mistress, and he alternately tyrannized over and dreaded her.
8 For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers.
9 The victim, from my cradle, of pecuniary liabilities to which I have been unable to respond, I have ever been the sport and toy of debasing circumstances.
10 A debasing war, in short, in which the Bank of France could be read in the folds of the flag.
Example Sentence:
1 In The King and l, Anna refuses to kneel down and prostrate herself before the king, for she feels that to do so would debase her position.
2 Some argue that money has debased football.
3 They debased the value of the dollar.
4 The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.
5 Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
6 The young in particular see him as a man who will not sell out or be debased by the compromises of politics.
7 Sport is being debased by commercialism.