abrade

Example Sentences

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With no mangled sheet metal to puncture or abrade tires, there ought to be fewer blowouts.

From Washington Post

For the hours in which I was fantasizing, I could escape the body that abraded me, as well as any roles of “daughter” and “girl.”

From Scientific American

The plywood and plastic are abraded to create furrows and gaps.

From Washington Post

Why is abstraction often associated with male-inflected industrial things and materials, like house paint and hot lead, and industrial processes like distilling, refining, abrading and polishing?

From Washington Post

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