How to use "degenerate" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "degenerate" in popular movie and book plots

  • However, things go to worse when the clones start to degenerate and Adam must return them to the tanning bed, before it's too late.  - Splitting Adam (film)
  • If the infected miss even a single dose, they quickly and irrevocably degenerate to a feral zombie state.  - The Returned (2013 film)
  • All goes well until the first generation of clones turn nineteen and degenerate into bestial killers.  - Blood of the Beast
  • Frank, a degenerate gambler, asks Bathsheba for £20 and she refuses, saying the money is for farm expenses.  - Far from the Madding Crowd (2015 film)
  • He seeks revenge on his awful degenerate wife (Bouchier) and the man he was accused of murdering.  - Murder in Reverse
  • Space Invaders start to shoot downwards; on contact, the projectiles cause a delivery truck and two taxis to degenerate into pixels.  - Pixels (2010 film)
  • He becomes a lazy, degenerate and unscrupulous good-for-nothing, no different from those he looked down on early in his life.  - Rickshaw Boy
  • Publicly quiet but privately vengeful, her animated beasts degenerate others into their ugliest forms.  - Drawn By Pain
  • Mike (Kane Picoy), a degenerate gambler.  - Double Down (2001 film)
  • A trumpeteer sounds a call, but things degenerate into a jazz band.  - Confederate Honey
  • The degenerate "Star Folk" and their culture arouse little interest among the flourishing interstellar human culture.  - The Ballad of Beta-2
  • However, the creatures degenerate instead of evolve and they find a physical way to leave rather than a meta-physical one.  - Stone Island (comics)
  • Instead of a government, America is run by an organization called the Merchants, who exploit the degenerate remains of society.  - Parasite (film)
  • Faced with such bounty though, they degenerate into a drunken, riotous bunch, partying to the strains of Handel's Messiah.  - Viridiana
  • At the same time, she learns her father is a degenerate gambler in jail for debt, and her uncle loses her capital in a failed investment.  - Gai-Jin
  • One of her trainers, Amande (Jeanne Moreau), transforms her from a degenerate drug addict to a beautiful femme fatale.  - Nikita (film)

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