wear off
Example Sentences
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“It sort of wears off,” said Ben Silverman, Verity’s head of research, of the bullish signal that insider purchases send to the market.
She was still hot from the steam, but as that wore off, I realized her temperature was beginning to drop.
From Literature
Professor Edwin Galea, from the University of Greenwich, said the effectiveness of retardant treatment on PU foam can wear off over time.
From BBC
Economists say that as that effect wears off, however, job growth in November should turn positive but remain subdued.
I read the paperback so often and so hard that I wore off the cover and had to stick it back on with tape.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
