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
A cool, Cartesian game versus an ardent, abrading one.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2011
Their energy is dissipated in moving shore drift hither and thither and in abrading the bench when they drag bottom upon it.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
