abrading

Example Sentences

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It is only then, once you are still, that a now low, whipping wind, riddled with sand begins pricking and abrading your skin and collecting in the pages of your novel; it is intolerable.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2025

On the way up, it will scout the rocks, including abrading more patches to see rock interiors.

From Scientific American • Jun. 7, 2022

And, beyond that, Dr. Tarly cured greyscale with more abrading than I would have liked.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 12, 2019

The calcaneal fat pad keeps the bone from abrading the skin on the underside of the heel.

From New York Times • May 30, 2016

Thus they flow away over the rim rock in a perfectly pure state—a state in which, as we have noted before, water has no capacity for abrading firm rock.

From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate