DEGRADED in a Sentence

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73 example sentences for DEGRADED, such as:
1. He has been degraded, you know.
2. I blushed for your degraded conduct.
3. Don't degrade yourself by answering him.
4. I felt degraded by having to ask for money.
5. I had now a new conception of my degraded condition.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DEGRADED
degraded
 a.  unrestrained by convention or morality
 a.  lowered in value
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  But, after all, we felt, winged things who would live like that must be rather degraded creatures.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
2  I had now a new conception of my degraded condition.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  Mr. and Mrs. Shelby both felt annoyed and degraded by the familiar impudence of the trader, and yet both saw the absolute necessity of putting a constraint on their feelings.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  It takes no spectacles to see that a great class of vicious, improvident, degraded people, among us, are an evil to us, as well as to themselves.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  Human beings, their feelings and passions, would indeed be degraded if such a wretch as I felt pride.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
6  But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
7  Mrs. John Dashwood now installed herself mistress of Norland; and her mother and sisters-in-law were degraded to the condition of visitors.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
8  I do not know that I am sorry, I do not know that I am ashamed, I do not know that I am degraded in my own esteem.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
9  You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
10  Not merely had she degraded herself; she had degraded him.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
11  You don't want people to talk of you as something vile and degraded.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
12  Dolokhov has been degraded to the ranks and Bezukhov's son sent back to Moscow.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
13  He has been degraded, you know.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXII
14  Some of our neighbours were coloured people, and some were the poorest and most ignorant and degraded white people.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
15  While the coloured people were ignorant, they had not, as a rule, degraded and weakened their bodies by vices such as are common to the lower class of people in the large cities.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII.
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  I felt degraded by having to ask for money.
2  I blushed for your degraded conduct.
3  In Gulliver's Travels, Swift portrays an image of humanity as vile, degraded beasts; for this reason, various critics consider him a misanthrope.
4  The increased number of livestock has caused pasture degradation, overgrazing and desertification in prone areas.
5  They think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes and scanty food: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.
6  How long do you think a man can endure such travail and degradation without rebelling?.
7  Some secretaries object to fetching the boss a cup of coffee, because they resent the degradation of being made to do such lowly tasks.
8  The techniques refer to new or modified agricultural practices to reduce soil degradation and erosion.
9  Prisoners of war were subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment.
10  No one should have to suffer such degrading treatment.
11  She felt he was degrading her by making her report to the director.
12  No one can degrade us except ourselves; that if we are worthy, no influence can defeat us.
13  Don't degrade yourself by answering him.
14  When I asked him if he had ever been to a prostitute he said he wouldn't degrade himself like that.
15  To reduce in worth or value: degrade a currency.