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
Let it rip and worry about it after — that was always Shanahan’s reflex, at least until the basic beatdown of NFL football began to wear away at the 42-year-old and kneecap his teams.
From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2022
And as soon as the mountains were built, they began, just as ineluctably, to wear away.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
