erode

How To Use erode In A Sentence

• Unless the damaged areas are quickly revegetated, the eroded soils sink below sea level and the area becomes open water.
• The papyri are broken and illegible; you must assemble an intelligible jigsaw from jagged fragments, truncated lines and eroded ink. Times, Sunday Times
• Its political culture, once fiercely democratic, is being eroded by a manipulated, bureaucratic legalism that identifies dissent as disloyalty.
• Yields on bonds are so low that any future inflation is likely to erode the rates of return on government bonds bought today.
• To erode that bedrock is to subscribe, to a “divine right of kings” theory of governance, in which those who govern are absolved from adhering to the basic moral standards to which the governed are accountable. Bush Slanders Freedom « Antiwar.com Blog
• These islands are rugged, eroded remnants of great volcanic cones. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
• The sea erodes everything, washes it smooth and round-edged.
• Once the more resistant gently dipping rocks of the Cotswolds have been removed, the underlying softer beds are easily eroded, so the Jurassic escarpments to the east of the Vales of Evesham and Gloucester retreated through time.
• But 1,000 feet of sandy beach have since eroded away, including all 210 feet that spanned the length of Sunset Cove.
• A competitor might erode the outlet's competitive advantage by offering natural beef through traditional channels.