wearing away
Example Sentences
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"So it didn't have the property of of basically wearing away and it could be used outdoors as well."
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2024
The cause: a wearing away of the protective cartilage between joints in the foot.
From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2022
Because it wasn’t a single epidemic, it was even harder to fight—it just steadily popped up, year after year, wearing away at the population.
From Slate • Feb. 9, 2021
“Here are no lofty peaks seeking the sky, no mighty glaciers or rushing streams wearing away the uplifted land,” President Harry S. Truman said in a 1947 address dedicating Everglades National Park.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2019
The afternoon was wearing away when they scrambled and stumbled into a fold that was wider and deeper than any they had yet met.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
