How to Use deterioration in a Sentence

deterioration

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  • His father, Mark, who is a doctor, spent many days at his son's bedside praying and watching his son's slow deterioration.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 12 May 2022
  • Brown, a man who can barely jog because of muscle deterioration, wants to complete an Ironman triathlon.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 May 2022
  • The cannons are being kept in water to prevent further deterioration until experts can carefully clean them.
    — CBS News, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Gandhi has now sought to connect all this to India’s economic deterioration itself.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Doctors and nurses perform daily reviews of each patient to monitor improvement and spot any signs of deterioration.
    — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Its anti-microbial surface helps reduce the build-up of stain-inducing mold, mildew, algae and fungus that cause staining and the deterioration of plumbing lines.
    — Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 17 May 2022
  • Among the tantalizing findings: A timber subjected to stress testing showed heavy deterioration on the surface but still had some integrity at its core.
    — al, 12 May 2022
  • The only deterioration is on the sole, where the grippy nubs have started to wear off in some areas.
    — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The deterioration of Card’s mental health has been examined in the weeks and months since the shooting.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
  • Well, so there’s where maybe some of the deterioration comes into play.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 7 June 2023
  • When seed is in wet soil for prolonged periods of time, some – or all – of the seed can be lost to deterioration or rotting.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 27 Jan. 2023
  • For young people, the most alarming trend is a deterioration in the number of jobs for those just starting out in a career.
    — Isabella Ward, Fortune Europe, 8 Apr. 2024
  • There will be a slow deterioration of the quality of our lives.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
  • Peltier also suffered a stroke, one of the many things Sharp said has led to a deterioration of his mental health.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2024
  • Short is among those who blame the West for the deterioration of relations with Russia.
    — Angela Stent, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • The point wasn’t to sanitize the deterioration of the planet.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
  • Such incoherence points to the kind of deterioration that was not known to have plagued Franklin or Rehnquist at Biden’s age.
    — Ezekiel J. Emanuel, The Atlantic, 5 July 2024
  • Adding in the weak fundamentals and the stock price deterioration produces the popular view that DJT is a stock to avoid.
    — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The question now is whether Fed rate cuts will do the trick in stopping that deterioration from going much further.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The patient is now on two of these drugs, and the deterioration of his physical abilities has stopped.
    — New York Times, 30 June 2022
  • Fandom played a part in the deterioration of these women’s lives.
    — Taylor Crumpton, TIME, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Many unused pools across the country are showing signs of deterioration, with weeds springing up in cracks in the concrete.
    — New York Times, 9 June 2022
  • The anogeissus helps to protect against the deterioration of the skin’s fibrin, which promotes long-term elasticity of the skin.
    — Olivia Hanson, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The surgery offered some relief from the tremors, but the deterioration continued.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Quartz’s Rocio Fabbro explains why the index has gotten so bad so quickly and why the Fed might think the deterioration is just noise.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Both signals showed deterioration on the opposite side of the house (the furthest from the extender).
    — PCMAG, 15 July 2024
  • Mass layoffs, dispersed work, and high turnover are all factors thought to have led to the deterioration of trust between leaders and their reports.
    — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 20 July 2023
  • The pope, 85, has revisited the topic of old age and deterioration many times in recent years.
    — Fox News, 30 July 2022
  • Signs of economic deterioration in China have been building over the past year.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Amid the deterioration in its financials, the company also recently shut down its San Francisco headquarters and moved to Texas.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024

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