How To Use Abrade In A Sentence

  • According to them, the genome of the ostrich has the ability to let the skin form calluses when the skin is abraded.
  • In the most hazardous situations, they can abrade turbine blades, clog the innards of modern jet engines and plug their cooling systems, causing them to stop running. How Ash Particles Damage a Jet Engine
  • The reference electrode consisted of a second silver-silver chloride electrode placed over an area of abraded skin on the forearm, again connected to the voltmeter.
  • And they pose a greater infection hazard than regular manicures since the vibrating electric file can easily cut or abrade the skin. 8 things not to buy this holiday season, for yourself or anyone else
  • Countless rounded river stones provided good hammers, and we sometimes found these tools, round and smooth on the handhold end, abraded on the striking end. Bird Cloud
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  • The most common cause of posterior heel bursitis is ill-fitting footwear with a stiff posterior edge that abrades the area of the Achilles tendon insertion.
  • The upper epidermis of the leaf was abraded with carborundum.
  • The surface texture of this specimen, except for the portion containing bark, is similar to that of all the other short shoots found and indicates that they had been abraded sufficiently to lose their bark.
  • I pulled my elbows up, felt the scruff of the mattress gently abrade the backs of my arms, and settled into a modified prone position. CUBA: FIVE DAYS ON THE CHEAP, FREE CELL, FREE GUARD DOG, FREE GUARD
  • The power of this film creeps up on you by stealth; its dramatic idiom is admittedly mannered in the Leigh style but shy of caricature, and designed consistently to abrade the audience's consciousness without irritating? fingertips down the blackboard, not fingernails. Another Year ? review
  • In the 1950s, hand scrubbing required the use of rough brushes with stiff bristles that abraded the skin and frequently increased bacterial counts.
  • Approximately 5 to 10 mg of powder was drilled from each tooth after the surface had been abraded to remove possible contamination.
  • To clean an unidentified spot of dirt from a page of a Samaritan Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible), Ms. de Arteni used a very soft vinyl eraser, a medium that won't abrade the vellum (animal skin) of the rare 13th-century volume. The New York Public Library: From Vault to Exhibition Gallery: Conserving Library Treasures
  • Much of the skin on her arm was abraded.
  • By a woody grain printing process, a woody grain pattern is printed on the abraded surface.
  • If it becomes chemically abraded (scraped or scratched) it can lead to persistent pain, blurred vision, and possibly infection. Eye Exposures
  • Marak blinked the blowing dust into tears, resisted the impulse to wipe, that would abrade his eyes. HAMMERFALL
  • • Start to "abrade" the area by distressing the marked area with sandpaper. Denimology
  • When he crashes against it and abrades his cheek upon its cold roughness, he realizes it is a tombstone.
  • Lacerations generally are ragged tears in the skin with abraded margins.
  • Marak blinked the blowing dust into tears, resisted the impulse to wipe, that would abrade his eyes. HAMMERFALL
  • Though tempered by comparison, the artist's stylistic extravagance - manifest in expressionistically smeared, splattered, and abraded paint handling - calls to mind Cecily Brown's fluent foregrounding of oil's in-the-flesh immediacy and the cunning ease with which obfuscatory gestures can suggest sexual frisson. ArtScene: Top Exhibitions in the West Highlight Opening Weeks of the New Season
  • Heavy machines then pounded and abraded them to make the surfaces smooth and uniform.
  • An important area of future investigation would be microwear studies to gain insights into the nature of the food that abraded animals teeth in the few days before they died.
  • When dry and hard the ground was scraped and abraded to a smooth flat surface, especially important if there were to be areas of gilding.
  • He would have naught but stubs left if he made it a habit to abrade them so often. Much Ado About Marriage
  • Lifting each leg, she methodically smeared the grease all up and down the red, abraded streaks on the undersides of her legs. Choker
  • Marak blinked the blowing dust into tears, resisted the impulse to wipe, that would abrade his eyes. HAMMERFALL
  • But I relaxed my throat and let the liquid in, gulping the entire thing down fast, letting the sharp tannins abrade my mouth and tongue, my throat, and even my stomach. The Next Ten Minutes
  • By the final moments, cometary dust will have abraded the camera's optics, degrading the quality of the images, and possibly ending transmission.
  • To remove soil-derived particulates on the tooth surface, all enamel surfaces were abraded to a depth >100 [mu] m with acid-cleaned, tungsten carbide dental burrs.
  • The skin after trip is met abrade one chunk.
  • He felt his skin abrade as he skidded off the tarp, but he lay still, apart from eyes blinking in the sudden light. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • My skin was abraded and very tender.
  • Her instants of selfless love, so focused upon me, are balm for my abraded ego.
  • The freshly abraded specimen must then be washed in industrial spirit and Analar acetone.
  • She stayed longer than usual in the shower, wishing for the rushing hot needles of water to abrade her skin and erode the still-vivid impressions of his touch.
  • Sures must have had tongue in cheek when she contrived Ghirlandina, a cast-paper relief of an old, crooked, leaning tower, wonderfully abraded and polychromed.
  • The Ogluinsky mine specimens are millimeter-sized octahedra, and the Nicolay mine specimens are unabraded and have mica attached.
  • Nothing had gotten past them, but the lenses were badly abraded by the hurtling glass particles from the bullet-pierced windshield.
  • West's eyes to Mr. Pike's big paws, with freshly abraded knuckles, resting on the rail. CHAPTER IX
  • My skin was abraded and very tender.
  • No pedestrian gestures to glaze the eye; no taped electronic ephemera to abrade the ear; no agendas to manipulate the sensibilities.
  • Meanwhile, improved enforcement has abraded the quality of pills and coke to such an extent that they no longer glitter quite so temptingly. How the British fell out of love with drugs
  • Erythema intertrigo is a hyperæmic disorder occurring on parts where the natural folds of the skin come in contact, and is characterized by redness, to which may be added an abraded surface and maceration of the epidermis. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
  • Microfracture exposes the subchondral bone, gently abrades it, yet leaves it intact during an arthroscopic procedure.
  • A slightly larger percentage of pairs of brooches were more abraded on the top right than the top left corner.
  • Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, both reckoning with the contours and mysteries of marriage, one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun. The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller: Book summary
  • To do so, the organism must be rubbed into abraded skin, swallowed, or inhaled as a fine, aerosolized mist.
  • The fall lost me the last of my senses: I but heard some of the Stewarts curse me for an encumbrance as they stumbled over me and passed on, heedless of my fate, and saw, as in a dwam, one of them who had abraded his knees by his stumble over my body, turn round with a drawn knife that glinted in a shred of moonlight. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
  • Communal life can abrade some of the rough edges of a person, the monks agreed, but in communal living you also learn surprising things about yourself.
  • They are composed of either particles or physical abraders such as sandpaper, steel wool, scrubbing pads, etc.
  • Much of the skin on her arm was abraded.
  • She wiped the piece of broccoli away from the hairs on his arm, taking care not to abrade his skin. For the Sake of the Boy
  • Much of the skin on her arm was abraded.
  • The wall of the arteriole had been abraded by the injury and was not entirely blocked by the clot which embraced the section of nerve fibers and cells tightly. Fantastic Voyage
  • Split skin grafting is another technique in which the white patch is covered by skin after it is abraded.
  • In general, however, cuticular development is not usually impaired, although the leaf surface may become abraded by the action of wind and wind-borne particles.
  • We are chalk and cheese; our personalities are radically different and likely to abrade each other.

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