How To Use Wearing away In A Sentence

It can be a sign that the enamel is wearing away, exposing dentine, the tissue beneath. The Sun
He suffered something called laminitis, which is a wearing away, as I understand it, of the connective tissue between the hoof and the bone, a very painful condition. CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2007
Erosion is the wearing away or destruction of metals and other materials by the abrasive action of water, steam or slurries that carry abrasive materials.
Microscopical examination of the desquamated intestinal membrane and mucus from a man forty years of age, revealed the following products: crystals, mostly complete; incomplete phosphates, very numerous; mucous shreds in abundance; fat globules and granules, numerous; anal epithelia; red blood globules, few; connective tissue, scanty; pus corpuscles, very few; margaric acid and detritus (substances resulting from the destruction or wearing away of the part); undigested material, mostly cellulose; leptothrix threads, micrococci; and the bacillus coli communis. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
It works really well to protect the wood from knicks and scratches, but the colour is wearing away where I use my mouse. Custom Monitor Stands And Cable Wrangling | Lifehacker Australia

The white paint on the porch was peeling, long years of standing was wearing away at the timber wood planks on the floor, creaking with every step.
You see, sir, just here a ridge of elvan crops up through the slate; the rock, out yonder, is good elvan, and that is why the sea has made an island of it, wearing away the softer stuff inshore. The Ship of Stars
Wearing away kits where there is no colour clash. Times, Sunday Times
Wearing away kits where there is no colour clash. Times, Sunday Times
Wearing away kits where there is no colour clash. Times, Sunday Times
At I 313-16, Lucretius, discussing the invisible wearing away of substances, says 'stilicidi casus _lapidem_ cauat, uncus aratri/_ferreus_ occulte decrescit uomer in aruis,/strataque iam uolgi pedibus detrita uiarum/saxea conspicimus'. The Last Poems of Ovid
She, active and fresh-looking still, but settling into that fair largeness which is not unbecoming a lady of middle-age, he, inclined to a slight stoop, with the lines of his face more sharply defined, and the hair wearing away off his forehead up to the crown. John Halifax, Gentleman
Afraid that her old fieriness was wearing away from the months of submission, she decided to sneak out one night.