Sample Sentences fordepreciate (auto-selected)
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But a car is a consumable item, not an asset. Esther's not investing the money she puts into it, because it will automatically begin to depreciate. (source)depreciate = decrease in value over time
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Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty's jewels and gifts. (source)depreciate = belittle (show as less valuable)
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It's based naturally on a depreciated figure for a clear safety margin.† (source)
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'No one has a right to talk in that manner, and I won't hear my brother depreciated in silence!'† (source)
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It can depreciate their value, especially if the females are going to purchased for breeding.† (source)
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'Of course you Englishmen are all the same about your homes,' she said, her voice becoming louder and louder, 'you depreciate them so as not to seem proud.† (source)
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Ah, depreciate other persons' dinners; you ministers give such splendid ones.† (source)
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During the weeks I had known her she had been aggravatingly conservative and low-keyed in her dress (aside from the flair for costumery she shared with Nathan, which was a different matter) and wore clothes clearly not calculated to focus eyes on her body, especially her upper torso; she was excessively demure even at a time in fashion when the womanly figure, badly depreciated, was rather down and out.† (source)
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It was a dislike so little just—every imputed fault was so magnified by fancy, that she never saw Jane Fairfax the first time after any considerable absence, without feeling that she had injured her; and now, when the due visit was paid, on her arrival, after a two years' interval, she was particularly struck with the very appearance and manners, which for those two whole years she had been depreciating.† (source)
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But what further depreciates the whale as a civilized dish, is his exceeding richness.† (source)
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What are the real motives behind current attempts to depreciate the importance of the Union?† (source)
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Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market.† (source)
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My debtors were failing, the paper money was depreciating.† (source)
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Will Helen's condition depreciate the property?† (source)
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People described with relish, afterwards, how cleverly he had "taken down" all the witnesses for the prosecution, and as far as possible perplexed them and, what's more, had aspersed their reputation and so depreciated the value of their evidence.† (source)
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The sense that Sir James was depreciating Will, and behaving rudely to him, roused her resolution and dignity: there was no touch of confusion in her manner.† (source)
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