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.
Thus, water reaching the playa continues across it towards the lowest point, and flows in this direction persist long enough to erode and maintain channels that are metres in width and decimetres deep.
The besiegement of a people can only erode moderation, foment hatred, and bring Palestinians and Israelis back to darker times. All Roads Lead to Checkpoints
The regulator said that their margins had been eroded by a rise in the wholesale cost of energy and the cost of delivering it. Times, Sunday Times
Since we all stand to lose if the rich biological capital of the tropics is eroded, this is our problem too.
Is it possible that societal trends since 1970 would have seriously eroded the church were it not for the influence of church growth? Christianity Today
The structural discontinuity between the shield and the horizontal lavas filling the embayment corresponds to the eroded scarps of the landslide.
The water slowly eroded the pile of blue, liquid into the silver drain.
After three attempts my patience erodes to the point that I begin mumbling a string of off-color language to the howling wind. Excerpt: The Privilege of Youth by Dave Pelzer
The figure, wearing the distinctive mitre - the ceremonial hat of a bishop - replaces an eroded piece of decorative stonework.
We shall not forget them, nor this magnificent production of a play that reminds us in our selfish age how collective responsibility and camaraderie have eroded away.
The reoccupation of all territories previously evacuated by Israel in the West Bank further eroded any modicum of trust left. Alon Ben-Meir: The Arab Peace initiative: Now or Never
Our cost competitiveness in the middle of the chain has been seriously eroded.
Everyone has his inherent power, which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness.
This inability to translate pressure into points seemed to erode their tenacity and the forwards, in particular, lost concentration.
Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary comprises a fringing coral reef ecosystem nestled within an eroded volcanic crater on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa. Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary
And just to remind you, watch your McCain appoint supreme court justices who would completely erode what is left of women's reproductive rights. Uncommitted Senate superdelegates meeting
The CCC thus saw the atrophied bodies of those joining the program much as it viewed cutover forests and eroded soils: as a degraded natural resource in dire need of conservation.
Small blood-vessel disease causes ‘mini-strokes’ that go unnoticed but erode neural-cell communication.
The guidance comes after recent court rulings exposed failings in the system that had eroded public trust. Times, Sunday Times
For Smith, then, nature becomes internal to capitalism in such a way that the very distinction implied by using these terms is eroded and undermined.
These tributaries are subsequent streams which erode strike valley.
Our personal freedom is being gradually eroded away.
You could see the eroded gaps when someone underbought a book and it sold out, selling in fitful gaps whenever a stock-starved store managed to get their hands on a few copies. When "I've Heard Of Them!" Becomes "They've Heard Of Me!"
As the land erodes and changes so do the cultural aspects of the island.
It was noted that Dr. Robert Winterode decided to "entrust" the patients with axes and tools to complete the construction. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Those setbacks have eroded Toyota's position against global rivals including Hyundai Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG, and pose longer-term worries for one of Japan's most important industrial giants. Toyota Slams on the Brakes
Expect boulders as high as houses eroded into weird shapes, caves daubed with prehistoric paintings and spectacular displays of springtime orchids. Times, Sunday Times
The company blamed intense price-cutting in depressed markets which further eroded petrochemical margins.
The shortened season had reduced income and the reduction of assets had further eroded income. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
Perhaps this checkmate will, over time, deprive the opposition of its support and erode the appeal of democracy.
Some of the best known bioeroders are large organisms such as parrotfish and sponges, but much of the bioerosion occurs at the microscopic scale by organisms such as algae and fungi. Coral reef
The union was derecognised a decade ago and we have seen our pay eroded over that time as most of us have had annual rises imposed that fell below inflation.
Global warming erodes coastlines, spreads pests and water-borne diseases and produces more erratic weather patterns.
The overlying thrombus had eroded and perforated the posterior mitral valve leaflet (white arrows).
Infomania erodes our capacity for significance. With a mind-set fixed on information, our attention shortens
Inflation will erode the value of future coupon dollars and principal repayments; the real interest rate is the return after deducting inflation.
These islands are rugged, eroded remnants of great volcanic cones. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
This essay asks how the political identity and domain of civic practice we refer to by the term citizenship is transformed, eroded, or, perhaps, disappeared in the contexts of neoliberal governance. James Warren: This Week in Magazines: If Your Yoga Class Mandates Bowing 3,000 Times During the Night, Consider Tennis or Golf
We can use inflation to erode the true value of debts. Times, Sunday Times
The trend toward tabloidization and instant popularization has eroded the boundary lines between news and entertainment, objective journalism and advocacy.
That could erode overall confidence in the economy and undermine the spending and investment needed to get it moving.
The age-old distinction between day and night eroded, especially during the 1940s, when wartime needs necessitated round-the-clock production.
If we had not got a result of some sort it would have eroded our confidence. The Sun
Not only are libraries closing but the service is being eroded, with librarians being replaced by untrained council staff or volunteers. The Sun
It needs inflation to erode the real cost of its debts. Times, Sunday Times
Roads along the coastline in north and north-east Trinidad began to rapidly erode because of heavy rainfall, sometimes closing off residents' access to the rest of the country.
You keep stum about nulab's lying Chancellor and Prime Minister, applaud while they destroy our country, erode our democracy, freedom and civil liberties - yet scream your head off when Boris Johnson tells the truth, albeit a bit indiscreetly. Looks Like Boris Had a Point...
These huge price rises can steadily erode the value of your wealth. Times, Sunday Times
Empowering citizens is good, say advocates, because it will rebuild social capital eroded by the state.
Choose a supplement made without sugar and avoid chewable forms, as these can erode tooth enamel.
The trend toward tabloidization and instant popularization has eroded the boundary lines between news and entertainment, objective journalism and advocacy.
They quickly spotted two or three more prints, which had been exposed as the wind eroded the dunes. Times, Sunday Times
Parked cars and billboards have further eroded the plaza's space.
Behind the screen workmen have already gutted the inside of the former church, the roof is being stripped of damaged tiles and stonemasons are cleaning stones and removing badly eroded ones for replacement.
Skyway's trails are easy, and its northeastern section provides a dramatic view of the Book Cliffs, deeply eroded shale walls that resemble taupe book spines lined up on a shelf.
America's belief in its own God-ordained uniqueness started to erode.
Here, it is expected to erode real disposable incomes over the next two years. Times, Sunday Times
I also do not expect the flood pathway stories to tell that the flood eroded, in several days, 50 cubic miles of basalt and silt that resulted in deep vertical-walled coulees with flat bottoms.
Now, this is a matter of detail perhaps but worth noting since p has occasionally eroded to f in Etruscan, particularly next to tautosyllabic u, and this sort of lenition can only rationally happen with a bilabial phoneme, not a labiodental one. Archive 2009-05-01
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.
Inflation erodes the value of our money.
With cash deposits there is always a risk that your capital will be eroded by inflation. Times, Sunday Times
Soil is being eroded by as much as 47 tonnes a hectare. Times, Sunday Times
A political programme that erodes human dignity is an affront to all of us, and deserves condemnation from every pulpit in the land.
Up here, suspended dizzyingly more than 100 feet above the ground, it is easy to see how the great stone buttresses that support the magnificent cathedral have been eroded by time.
They were deposited by a hydrothermal vein cutting granite, which was later eroded exposing surface ore.
While that was quite humorous, it is a serious issue and so many men have had their self-confidence eroded by it. The Sun
Not only do property values erode and tax revenues dip.
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement. Brene Brown
Shoshonite nearest the contact with the overlying flow is scoriaceous and, being less weather resistant, has eroded back to form a conspicuous bench.
Bridges, causeways and other manmade trafficways are not always capable of supporting them, and even those that are can erode quickly under repeated use.
The rock appeared very old and worn, especially the cliff face, which looked as though it had been eroded by water over many millennia, leaving its scrub-grown surface scored and intaglioed with rounded vertical gullies.
High on the side of the valley is a band of hard stone, below which softer rock has eroded out leaving overhangs and rock shelters along the base of the cliff.
Jing is considered to be a very precious substance - the foundation of our constitutional energy - one that we need to protect and value by ensuring that we do not erode it through excesses, neither by overworking nor by partying!
The old stonework was crumbling and eroded and badly in need of repair.
The role of the pub as a bastion of male bonding has also been eroded by changing social mores. Times, Sunday Times
The soil was so badly eroded it could no longer sustain crop production.
By 1980, Miami beach had all but totally eroded.
Although rare, a large gallstone in the gallbladder will sometimes erode through the gallbladder wall into an adjacent viscus, usually the duodenum.
Layered deposits have been partly eroded by the wind in some places, exposing an etched surface.
Continued erosion by fast-flowing water eroded the uplands to the north of the Gippsland Basin and covered the coal measures with sands and gravels.
The bedrock is an ancient, heavily eroded Cambrian metamorphic plateau dramatically punctuated by a chain of isolated flat-topped mountains. Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
The job, located in an established, upscale residential development, required reshaping 150 ft of the eroded banks of a creek and armoring the site with riprap.
The specific heterodikaryon complementation results allowed us to allocate a 37-year-old female patient with xeroderma pigmentosum to complementation group G of rare incidence.
It was to be even longer before their dominance over the party was eroded.
Without a doubt, the loonie's sharp appreciation has somewhat eroded the competitiveness of Canada's export sector.
The slowdown in economic activity has eroded tax payments from businesses and households, pushing up public deficits and debt burdens. Times, Sunday Times
The soil was so badly eroded it could no longer sustain crop production.
Individual DNA repair capacity strongly influences skin cancer susceptibility as illustrated in cancer prone DNA repair-deficient xeroderma pigmentosutn patients.
Alternatively, the patient might develop thickening of the skin, which would suggest the diagnosis of scleroderma.
Cutting price or couponing have been useful tactics, but we really felt that it didn't do anything to build equity and may even erode it.
Presumably this might happen due to the greater amount of material to be eroded before a cut off could occur.
A canyon, too, is the consequence of ‘natural’ processes such as the way fluids erode rock.
Minerals such as calcium and magnesium eroded away and poured into the sea, where they ‘fixed’ carbon dioxide and stopped it escaping into the air.
The shortened season had reduced income and the reduction of assets had further eroded income. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
His confidence and selfesteem had been eroded over a long period of time by the bullying behaviour he experienced in secondary education. Times, Sunday Times
Confidence was eroded on more than one front. Times, Sunday Times
No, these wetlands were not developed, they eroded away.
They quickly spotted two or three more prints, which had been exposed as the wind eroded the dunes. Times, Sunday Times
The guidance comes after recent court rulings exposed failings in the system that had eroded public trust. Times, Sunday Times
Since timing is so crucial to punching power, and timing is eroded by age and wear and tear, that declaration is nonsensical. Times, Sunday Times
A study of sheep grazing on a belah (Casuarina cristata) - rosewood (Heterodendum oleifolium) shrub woodland in western New South Wales. Chapter 13
The distinction between health and social care makes no sense and it will need to be eroded gradually. Times, Sunday Times
The ego, so dominant in all Western endeavour, is seen as an obstacle to the ancient mystics, something that has to be steadily eroded. Zen and Learning « Tales from the Reading Room
Walkers should stick to obvious paths, even if they are badly eroded.
But when minivans became tagged as the unstylish choice of soccer moms, sales eroded to about 1.1 million a year.
The Depression was a cataclysmic event that did much to erode confidence in the middle class's dream of racial advancement through economic self-help.
Convergence became the watchword as boundaries separating local and long-distance, voice and data, cable and telephone, and wireline and wireless services eroded.
Competition in the financial marketplace has eroded profits.
Said Rosenstiel: ‘If you disinvest, you'll actually erode your circulation, your penetration, and your revenues, and you will liquidate the business.’
As the seamount sinks or its peak erodes, the seamount will disappear beneath the water leaving the coral ring.
That majority has eroded to a handful of seats over the past three years after several allies defected to the opposition.
Now, this is a matter of detail perhaps but worth noting since p has occasionally eroded to f in Etruscan, particularly next to tautosyllabic u, and this sort of lenition can only rationally happen with a bilabial phoneme, not a labiodental one. Some observations concerning Woodard's The Ancient Languages of Europe
Experts said they believed the road's foundations had been eroded by water but that nothing would have happened if traffic conditions along that section of road had been normal.
Eventually the surrounding layers of older rock eroded away, leaving this mass exposed as a monadnock.
She was sure they had once been clean-cut, but frequent wear gradually eroded away the edges.
It allows households and businesses to take risks as it erodes the real value of debts. Times, Sunday Times
A disconformity is a boundary between horizontal layers of old sedimentary rock and overlying younger layers deposited on an eroded surface. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The picture he draws is not one of corporations denationalized by economic integration and states whose powers have been eroded, as in much current writing on globalization.
The soil was so badly eroded it could no longer sustain crop production.
Both bays are part of a massive volcano crater that has eroded away.
It allows households and businesses to take risks as it erodes the real value of debts. Times, Sunday Times
Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind, your humor, your kindness and your moral courage.
Nothing surrounded us but the dark embrace of trees, except where the predawn light touched the eroded stone face of another pyramid rising above the canopy.
Sex scandals and no-fault divorce have eroded respect for marriage and commitment.
Between them, they have so eroded Kate's confidence and self-esteem that she is incapable of taking control of her own life, and she is trapped in an increasingly suffocating existence as she grows to adulthood.
The nine-year-old has xeroderma pigmentosum, an incurable and rare genetic disorder that creates cancerous growths on her face and makes exposure to sunlight very dangerous. The Sun
At the Center, the binary of human and machine begins to erode with the creation a self-conscious computer.
Now I can make out the huge blocks of stone naturally eroded into these surprisingly regular shapes.
The highlights films erode appreciation for the various beauties of the game, some of which are small and patient.
As is erodes, it releases the digestive enzymes, amylase, lipase, and cellulase.
High wages and rigid labor rules have hurt productivity, eroded earnings, and made companies reluctant to hire.
Staff are demoralised, not least because local councils have eroded library opening hours and consequently cut shift allowances.
On the small flats, the apple-gum grew with a few scattered Moreton Bay ash trees; on the bergues of the river we found the white cedar (Melia azedarach), Clerodendron; an asclepiadaceous shrub with large triangular seed-vessels; and, on the hills, the blood-wood and stringy-bark. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
The role of the pub as a bastion of male bonding has also been eroded by changing social mores. Times, Sunday Times
The indoor experiment shows, it is feasible to utilize Beauveria bassiana carried by Scleroderma sichuanensis Xiao to infect Monochamus alternatus larva voluntarily.
Many evangelical Protestants also want to erode the separation of church and state.
The lining epithelium was often eroded, and the underlying stroma showed dense infiltration by inflammatory cells.
The condition called scleroderma affects your hands and feet. RNews - TOP STORIES
They quickly spotted two or three more prints, which had been exposed as the wind eroded the dunes. Times, Sunday Times
These ranged from missing safety clips that hold the rail in place, missing bolts, cracked sleepers and eroded ballast as well as worn out rails.
Christianity's anyway tenuous situation in the holy land eroded.
There is a rare disease called xeroderma pigmentosum XP. Do We Restrict Peanuts Because 100 People a Year Die from Allergy? - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState
Sudden movements in exchange and interest rates can erode profit margins, strain your cashflow and shrink overall profits.
However, lips are not hyperkeratotic skin, as found in warts. 8 When salicylic acid is applied to the lips, it can erode through the outer stratum corneum to damage living skin layers beneathâthis creates a vicious cycle. Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives
Alluvial basins act as direct sources for turbidite basins when contemporaneous shallow marine shelves are by-passed and detritus is fed along submarine canyons that erode back into alluvial basins or coastal plains.
This broad consensus about the rightness of the war was not fundamentally eroded over the next four terrible years.
The shortened season had reduced income and the reduction of assets had further eroded income. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
Salicylic acid possesses a keratolytic action that erodes the hyperkeratotic lesions. Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives
The pressure towards uniformity constantly threatens to erode local traditions.
At one time the world was divided into entities that were separated by geographical boundaries, which have been significantly eroded and continue to dissolve.
Set well back behind eroded cliffs close to the western extremity of St Abbs Head in Berwickshire, this is a boat dive in what could almost be described as a lagoon, protected from the chop and surge on the outside.
It also means considerable extra expense in deliveries plus extra returns and the like. Finally, it erodes confidence in each news agency and this hurts our future.
Eroded sediment can be transported by creep, saltation, or suspension, and where much fine soil or sediment is present, dust clouds can result.
The cliff face has been steadily eroded by the sea.
The rising cost of essential goods and services has eroded their discretionary income. Times, Sunday Times
Is it possible that societal trends since 1970 would have seriously eroded the church were it not for the influence of church growth? Christianity Today
The trend toward tabloidization and instant popularization has eroded the boundary lines between news and entertainment, objective journalism and advocacy.
George's face is badly disfigured and he has no fingers or toes; his voice is high-pitched because a part of his throat has been eroded by the disease.
The storm got sand in the engine intakes and eroded the fuel relays.
In any case, the power of the press barons is being rapidly eroded by the internet. Times, Sunday Times
Expect boulders as high as houses eroded into weird shapes, caves daubed with prehistoric paintings and spectacular displays of springtime orchids. Times, Sunday Times
A fine, solid, brown species, generally more or less eroded, and with a peculiarly strongly plicate columella. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
Not only is the monetary compensation being offered by the government a paltry amount, but inflation will erode its value over time.
It shows some old eroded aeolian "aeolian" = wind-formed features that may have once been either dunes or ripples. SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Lori Fenton -- Sand Seas of the Solar System
An extended parking area has enabled the restoration or eroded downland where formerly the grass had been all but lost to cars.
Take advice, as these costs can add up and erode your profit margins. Times, Sunday Times
On the left innominate, or hip bone, the pubic symphyseal face was badly eroded. 206 BONES
Mr Porter added that it was possible to see through the wall in places because so much stonework had eroded away.
Because of the nitrifying bacteria in nodules on its roots, it is especially effective in improving the fertility of eroded soils. Chapter 6
Sales of land began about 1540 and continued until Stuart times. Inflation eroded the revenue from land and commerce.
Expect boulders as high as houses eroded into weird shapes, caves daubed with prehistoric paintings and spectacular displays of springtime orchids. Times, Sunday Times
She died on June 8, 2004, after a long and painful battle against scleroderma, a chronic disease of the immune system, connective tissue and blood vessels.
Trust has been eroded by the fact that she has been embroiled in one scandal after another. Times, Sunday Times
Mortgage payments have been eroded by inflation. ?
The cliffs are being constantly eroded by heavy seas.
During the brief 1991-98 period of peace, Eritreans organized themselves to terrace the steeply eroded mountainsides with endless ribbons of rock.
His critics say his fumbling of the issue of reform has eroded his authority.
Classical dermatomyositis patients will occasionally experience arthritis and other symptoms of different autoimmune rheumatic diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus and scleroderma.
Sadly, over a century later, the blood-soaked gains made by America's labor movement are being relentlessly eroded by stealthy corporations and pliant politicians. Mark Cassello: Labor and Capital in the 21st Century: Legacy of the Haymarket Affair
Purchasing activities fell into private hands and land sales continued to erode Iroquois territories.
Well, apart from the torture victims, the murdered and other unfortunates who have had their civil liberties eroded, human rights curtailed and so on.
There is a wide range of topics which include saline, sodic, acidic, eroded, compacted, and organic soils.
People with a rare inherited disorder called xeroderma pigmentosum have extreme sensitivity to the sun and must avoid exposure at all times. a chronic form of sun sensitivity, most often seen in elderly men , that shows up as itchy red, inflamed bumps and scaly patches on sun-exposed skin, Dr. Sarnoff and co-authors wrote in The Skin Cancer Foundation Journal in 2008. NYT > Home Page
Currently, a number of court and legal proceedings have further eroded the pro-choice movement.
Upon arrival everything was going right, all my worries slowly eroded away.
When you get a tube smoking hot and keep it that way, its rifling is going to erode. Barrel Life, Part II
Mercifully, commenter "harumph" pops by with a futile attempt to restore sanity: "Coleman's lead eroded all day Thursday as the Canvassing Board considered a pile of challenges brought entirely by the Coleman campaign. Fat nigger jokes, SDA-style.
I used to have immense pride and respect for England but since 1946 that has almost eroded away.
Special temperature sensor must be developed in order to meet the need of specific environment including highly erodent, heat melt, vacuum and carburizing etc. die characteristic.

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