Example Sentences

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It is only then, once you are still, that a now low, whipping wind, riddled with sand begins pricking and abrading your skin and collecting in the pages of your novel; it is intolerable.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2025

On the way up, it will scout the rocks, including abrading more patches to see rock interiors.

From Scientific American • Jun. 7, 2022

And, beyond that, Dr. Tarly cured greyscale with more abrading than I would have liked.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 12, 2019

The new album once again features Mr. Modirzadeh and Mr. ElSaffar in the foreground, blending or abrading their timbres in ways that shrug off the Western scale.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2012

The meaning of this last verse is somewhat obscure; but, taken with the context, may be supposed to allude to the abrading power of floods, torrents, and rivers.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir