corrode
verb (used with object)
to eat or wear away gradually as if by gnawing, especially by chemical action.
were corroding
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past progressiveof corrode.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In 2006, inspectors told the city the steel-concrete piles were corroding and suggested the terrace section be repaired or demolished, with load and access restrictions as an alternative.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
As attorney general, Kennedy approved the F.B.I.’s request to wiretap King and urged King to abandon the Freedom Riders, because their efforts were corroding the Democratic Party’s base in the South.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2018
Workers at a remaining GM plant found their parts were corroding.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 26, 2016
It was over budget and overdue, because the special effects crew had to constantly repair the sharks, whose metal innards were corroding in the sea water.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2015
He did not speak of the things that were corroding his heart, but he sat by and heard himself chatter his diabolic creed as a drunkard watches his own folly.
From A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White
