wear away
Example Sentences
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As the sponge is used, small pieces of the foam gradually wear away.
From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026
It also neutralizes acids made by the bacteria that can wear away at your tooth enamel.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2023
This leads to uneven properties within rocks, Schwenzer says, so that when the rocks erode to the point they are on the planet’s surface and the wind whips against them, they don’t wear away evenly.
From Scientific American • May 17, 2023
“Historians, and, I’m afraid, doctors,” she told the Guardian in 2020, “underestimate what chronic pain can do to sour the temper and wear away both the personality and the intellect.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022
The nuns spied me out there and told me I’m going to wear away their foundation.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
