Sentence examples for before degenerating from inspiring English sources

On a reread it turned out that this one – about the adventures of four children who discover a fragment of broken mirror that reflects an alternative world – began promisingly enough before degenerating into a flagrant Narnia rip-off.

They were sent out on successive days at the end of the week in which rioting had started in Tottenham, north London, following a police shooting, before degenerating into widespread looting as it spread across the capital and other cities.

For many Mexicans it was still sinking in today that after 71 years, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which evolved from an alliance of revolutionary generals into a model nationalist party imitated across Latin America before degenerating into a clique of corrupt insiders, was finally deposed from the presidency.

The unrest began in the midst of the Arab Spring regional uprisings, with protests against President Bashar Assad, before degenerating into civil war.

Late on September 21, Nadine curved southward, shortly before degenerating into non-tropical low-pressure area.

The depression crossed the Lesser Antilles on August 4, before degenerating back into a tropical wave.

Michael weakened to a tropical storm while accelerating northward on September 11, several hours before degenerated into remnant low pressure area, while located well west of the Azores.

Despite this pretentious warning, "The Black Veil" gets off to an engagingly eccentric start, before precipitously degenerating into a self-important and self-involved rant that feels like an unedited piece of 12-step testimony run amok.

Tropical Storm Patricia was a short-lived tropical cyclone that briefly affected parts of Baja California Sur before rapidly degenerating over water.

The filtering distributions are approximated at each time step by considering all possible offsprings of all ancestral trajectories before discarding degenerated paths instead of resampling the ancestral paths before propagating them at the next time step.

"That was before war degenerated," he said.