abrading

Example Sentences

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It is only then, once you are still, that a now low, whipping wind, riddled with sand begins pricking and abrading your skin and collecting in the pages of your novel; it is intolerable.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2025

On the way up, it will scout the rocks, including abrading more patches to see rock interiors.

From Scientific American • Jun. 7, 2022

And, beyond that, Dr. Tarly cured greyscale with more abrading than I would have liked.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 12, 2019

The calcaneal fat pad keeps the bone from abrading the skin on the underside of the heel.

From New York Times • May 30, 2016

It is one of the most valuable of all whetstones, abrading the hardest steel, and possessing sufficient compactness to resist the pressure required for sharpening gravers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various