DEPRECIATE in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for DEPRECIATE, such as:

1. New cars depreciate in value quickly.
2. If you neglect this property, it will depreciate.
3. Shares continued to depreciate on the stock markets today.
4. We must provide for depreciation when calculating the costs.
5. New cars start to depreciate as soon as they are on the road.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEPRECIATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
depreciate
 v.  lessen price or value of; think or speak of as being of little worth; belittle
Classic Sentence:
1  In a sulky triumph, Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us, in a more and more offensive degree, until he became downright intolerable.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
2  He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
3  Never to put one hand to anything, on which I could throw my whole self; and never to affect depreciation of my work, whatever it was; I find, now, to have been my golden rules.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
4  I depreciated Paris; I depreciated France.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
5  But what further depreciates the whale as a civilized dish, is his exceeding richness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
6  Gregson and Lestrade seemed to be far from satisfied by this assurance, or by the depreciating allusion to the detective police.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Example Sentence:
1  Envy is blind and kows nothing except how to depreciate the excellence of others.
2  New cars depreciate in value quickly.
3  New cars start to depreciate as soon as they are on the road.
4  Shares continued to depreciate on the stock markets today.
5  If you neglect this property, it will depreciate.
6  A depreciation of the dollar would make US exports cheaper and especially so in Japan.
7  We must provide for depreciation when calculating the costs.
8  These days we all see a depreciation of the dollar against the yen.
9  Since they set up a builder's yard next door, our house has depreciated in value.