Moreover, were there any prelates apparently degenerating from the sanctity of ancient times, that is to say, skilled in secular, indolent in spiritual matters?
Nor is it a matter of the least importance to our inquiry, whether these species of the race have been produced by an upward movement from the lowest, or a downward degenerating movement from the most elevated.
By their disobedience, they were degenerating from the condition of the son to that of the ebed.
Now measure their value in time of peace, for national defense against the evil forces that are gnawing at the very vitals of our national existence by degenerating our racial strength and physical and mental power as a people.
New York is in far greater danger from the criminal, immoral, evil, and degenerating forces that she is nursing in her own bosom than she is from any military force that might be landed on our shores by a foreign invader.
It has supplied to thousands of persons the regenerative power of religion that alone has matched the degenerating influence of immoral habits.
Pusey, plunging blindly into Romanism with the one, degenerating into a somewhat barren symbolism with the other.
If the morality of the spiritual life is certain of its own nature, it is quite possible for it to recognise a certain validity in every other kind of morality without degenerating into a feeble eclecticism.
Those are not to be listened to who assert that a king, degenerating into a tyrant, may be resisted and punished by his people.
Marriage is the most sacred institution ever established on earth, making the father, mother and child a veritable Holy Trinity; but it is rapidly degenerating into an unclean Humbug, in which Greed is God and Gall is recognized high-priest.
He was a man of great mental endowments, and in the use of invective, oftendegenerating into billingsgate, he stood without a rival in American journalism.
Let the people of this city offer a fat purse for the man who can read the editorial page of the Dallas News thirty days in succession without degeneratinginto a driveling idiot.
For although there was at that time a recognized poetical style, already degenerating to mannerism, a developed prose style did not exist.
The main roads centring in Seoul are seldom fit even for the passage of ox-carts, and the secondary roads are bad bridle-tracks, frequentlydegenerating into "rock ladders.
Moreouer, Harold made small account of his subiects, degenerating from the noble vertues of his father, following him in few things (except in exacting of tributes and paiments.
Life is at best a series of illusions; the whole office of philosophy is to keep it from degenerating into a series of delusions.
Under these circumstances decorum, the supreme virtue of the humanist, is in danger of degenerating into some art of going through the motions.
If we are to keep it from thus degenerating we need to grasp above all the difference between the eccentric and the concentric imagination.
An unhealthy, degenerating asceticism, drawn from pagan sources, began with the monks and anchorites of Egypt and culminated in the spectacle of Simeon's pillar.
The contests of the world rest largely upon feeling, often degenerating into mere passion.
In the related genera, this lancet is very much more blunt and immovable, degenerating at last into the rough spines of Balistapus or the hair-like prickles of Monacanthus.
The masses were fast degenerating into that state of stolid ignorance and unbelief from which all subsequent legislation has failed to raise them.
Sometimes crime seems to be the method by which the degenerating organism seeks to escape from an insane taint in the parents.
The child seems then to have been born of a failing and degenerating stock.
And instead of degenerating toward something worse, they come to prepare the way for something better.
To say that they are lukewarm is only to fairly indicate a state of feeling which is rapidly degenerating into frigidity.
I hold that the clergy by degenerating into mere political agents are strangely short-sighted.
Still, the mental set is useful here, in directing the search, and keeping it from degenerating into an aimless running hither and thither.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "degenerating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
