Sentence examples for debased by from inspiring English sources

The Knesset has been debased by the executive's greater clout.

You would think the word would be debased by now.

Perhaps no word in public life of late has been more thoroughly debased by overuse.

Everywhere Ms. Griswold travels, Christianity and Islam are debased by their own practitioners.

Tells how the concept of self-expression has been debased by fashion.

He did know Goya, whose harrowing genius he debased by evoking it in boilerplate scenes of gaudy atrocity.

A gem in old small-town drugstores, this material has become debased by overuse in the lesser suburban office parks.

Purists also say the ceremony has been debased by overuse, and they lament the growing encroachment of team sponsors and paying customers on the playing field.

In place of the film's tagline, "Passion debased by lust … leaves a taste of evil!," the album cover gives its title.

In addition, the coinage was debased by the medieval practice of "clipping" of coins, or shaving off the edges to save the silver.

As in previous episodes, the pleasures derive less from Burdett's baroque plotting (in this case including former Khmer Rouge hired killers, a pornography ring debased even by Bangkok standards, and a death by torture involving elephants) than from the vivid portrait he paints of contemporary Thai life and mores.