abrade

Example Sentences

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Your clothes “are dingier from when you started washing them until now. It’s happening a little bit at a time. Because you didn’t sort at all, everything becomes abraded.”

From Washington Post

Over-the-counter Compound W was completely wrong, perhaps because the wart is abraded.

From Seattle Times

On a TV, the intimacy of the artist’s touch is foregrounded, as is the intentionally dog-eared quality of much of his source material: You more readily see the abraded edges, the creases and dings.

From New York Times

The sculptures are panels of stainless steel, skillfully welded together, burnished to a mirrorlike sheen then abraded with a disk grinder.

From Washington Post

Another difference was that the shells that had been lounging on the beach before being brought into the cave were worn and abraded on the outside while the other shells were more smooth.

From New York Times