corrosive

Example Sentences

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It’s a really corrosive quality to bring to a group activity.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Its sour, heavy crude is difficult to extract and refine, while its high sulphur content makes it corrosive to pipelines.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

While German municipalities used to allow citizens to sprinkle salt on frozen walkways, this was banned years ago, in favour of just gravel, as the corrosive salt is known to attack the roots of trees.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

He singled out the U.S. as a leading threat, writing essays that criticized what he described as American arrogance and the corrosive influence of American consumerism—views that prompted peers to call him a “culture warrior.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

The clinging, overpowering conviction of death spread steadily with the continuing rainfall, soaking mordantly into each man’s ailing countenance like the corrosive blot of some crawling disease.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller