Sentence examples for were degrees of from inspiring English sources

Who knew there were degrees of potatoeyness?

Blimey - if seconds were degrees of pretentiousness and degrees of pretension were Celsius, we'd all be very, very hot right now.

That added to unemployment, they said, and failed to recognize that many Iraqis had to join the Baath Party to get decent schooling or a decent job, and that there were degrees of membership.

Doctorow offers, through the mind of Stephen Walsh, a dystopian vision of a South where the institution was perpetuated indefinitely: **{:.break one} ** In this strange country down here, after generations of its hideous ways, slaves were no longer simply black, they were degrees of white.

Vital functions were degrees of illness (severe, moderate, not sick), consciousness (normal, confused or comatose), body temperature (with or without chills), heart rate, blood pressure (BP), respiration rate and peripheral oxygen levels.

There are degrees of damage, of course.

Still, there are degrees of unnaturalness.

Well, there are degrees of hypocrisy.

And there are degrees of indefensibility.

But there are degrees of risk.

There are degrees of losing.