abrade
Example Sentences
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Its nine stories concern the complicated Bengali families in India and America, and Lahiri’s elegant, observant prose is constantly alert to the ways that lore and folkways shape or abrade relationships.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
One recent study suggests that many particles enter the water when you repeatedly open or close the cap, and tiny bits abrade.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2024
This parodic picaresque finds Sturges at the zenith of his formidable powers to abrade and delight.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021
Our veneer of civilization would not take all that much to abrade.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2018
Urban life tended to abrade tribal and ethnic distinctions, and instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans, we were Alexandrians.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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The Alchemist
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