| 1. | He too will be apt to depreciate their application to the arts. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 2. | "Ah, depreciate other persons' dinners you ministers give such splendid ones.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 3. | To this Mary very gravely replied, "Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 4. | By pointing out the analogies between Leonardo's architecture and that of other masters we in no way pretend to depreciate his individual and original inventive power. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 5. | I was observing you both when you were walking in the garden, and, on my honor, without at all wishing to depreciate the beauty of Mademoiselle Danglars, I cannot understand how any man can really love her.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 6. | But what further depreciates the whale as a civilized dish, is his exceeding richness. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | 'No one has a right to talk in that manner, and I won't hear my brother depreciated in silence. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 8. | The world of sense is still depreciated and identified with opinion, though admitted to be a shadow of the true. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 9. | should have depreciated that solar body, saying that it was of the nature of incandescent stone, and the one who opposed him as to that error was not far wrong. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 10. | We are disappointed to find that Plato, in the general condemnation which he passes on the practice of medicine prevailing in his own day, depreciates the effects of diet. - from The Republic by Plato |