How to Use "regress" with Example Sentences

1. The brain is nothing but an infinite regress of matter reducible to the callous laws of physics .

2. From an outside perspective , our progress might be seen as a regress .

3. Mr putin 's september announcement of a planned job swap with president dmitry medvedev seemed just another sign of regress and conceit .

4. I spend lots of time away from them now . I dont think I know how to love them properly yet and get scared very often , and regress to my little shell .

5. The natural impulses that helped early humans find food and avoid predators are causing us to regress to a state no more sophisticated than a rat in a laboratory , he said .