Example Sentences

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Eroding the public’s confidence in state and federal authorities can prove as dangerous as high winds in a calamitous situation.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024

Eroding mountain slopes and hillsides would set the stage for cascading disasters like floods and landslides when sudden shocks to the system, like earthquakes, occur.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2023

Eroding out of the area’s wave-battered limestone cliffs are the inhabitants of a tropical sea from 200 million years ago, including squidlike ammonites, pterosaurs, and a slew of marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurs and long-necked plesiosaurs.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2022

Eroding it also hurts India’s ability to offer its neighborhood, by way of example, something valuable that China cannot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2018

Eroding us, absorbing us—whatever you want to call it.

From Vampires of Space by Wright, Sewell Peaslee