How to use "degree" in a sentence

All things considered, she felt reasonably good, even cheerful to a degree

Then, as they stepped out of the rear entrance of the hotel and walked along the edge of the parking lot in the seventy-degree winter sunshine, he said, "So what did you want to talk about?"

He had his law degree, but he didn't want the hassle of a day-to-day legal practice

There's a part of you, deep down, that's responding to the challenge with a degree of pleasure."

Again and again, we're getting these thirty-and forty-degree plunges in the air temperature in there

In 1969, she got a degree in law from the University of Tehran

She later got a PhD - a higher degree - in law, and she became Iran's first woman judge