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
Well, I approached the job by trying for a material that would absorb graphite without abrading paper.”
From The Big Bounce by Walter S. Tevis
