lose strength
Example Sentences
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Polystyrene can be chemically recycled using heat, but repeated treatments degrade the material, causing it to lose strength and flexibility.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2024
After hitting the coast, most typhoons tend to lose strength while moving into the mountainous interior of southeastern China, although they sometimes linger over areas, dropping heavy rain.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2023
And that was before the megadrought, which dried out soils within the levees and underneath them — causing the structures to weaken and lose strength, Vahedifard said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2023
"If we cannot work because we're always suffering new interruptions, sieges, strikes or blockades, we lose strength," said Fernando Hurtado, president the region's industrial chamber Cainco, in a video message alongside other business heads.
From Reuters • Jan. 3, 2023
If you are immobile at that altitude you lose strength in the cold, and then you are unable to do anything.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
