corrosive

Example Sentences

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It’s a really corrosive quality to bring to a group activity.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Its sour, heavy crude is difficult to extract and refine, while its high sulphur content makes it corrosive to pipelines.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

While German municipalities used to allow citizens to sprinkle salt on frozen walkways, this was banned years ago, in favour of just gravel, as the corrosive salt is known to attack the roots of trees.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

I’ve always felt that engagement is better and more corrosive to a dictatorship than isolating them… Secret police never go hungry, armies never go hungry.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2026

On December 16, 1989, thousands of people took to the streets of Timisoara to protest his corrosive regime.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt