Sentences with 'degenerated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word degenerated and other words derived from it.
• « By then, however, the legal and social conditions of farmers had degenerated to the point where they were essentially serfs (known as colonists): unfree rural labourers, hardly better than slaves themselves. »
• « By the time the last Abbasid caliph was killed by the Mongols in 1258, the caliphate itself had long degenerated into a legal fiction. »
• « In practice, however, conservatism too often degenerated into a stubborn defence of corrupt, incompetent or oppressive regimes. »
• « However, despite the success of all these movements, with all the hopes and aspirations of their supporters over the last century, Europe had degenerated into a horrendous and costly war. »