Example Sentences

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Your once-favoured pastime loses status in your 50s, becoming an also-ran in the steeplechase of life, or, more corrosively, a battleground, where daily skirmishes are played out.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2017

It’s corrosively negative, and I think that’s too bad.

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2017

A corrosively beautiful cocktail of a thriller, Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals” tells three interwoven stories, all of them concerning roughly the same characters, but each one set in a different time and place.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2016

They know they are in the midst of a crisis of trust, that people do have that corrosively cynical view of what business is for.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2015

Poor maestra, she is yellow and bitter-skinned, near fifty, but her dark eyes are still corrosively inflammable.

From Twilight in Italy by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)