wear off

Example Sentences

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The shine started to wear off quickly, though.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

"We did not see its effect wear off over time."

From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2025

The network, a majority from Altadena, has seen the adrenaline that pushed people at the beginning of the year wear off as a sense of dismay set in.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

So far, stocks have largely ignored tariffs’ threat to the economy, assuming that any resulting inflation will wear off next year.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

But the face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone’s eyeballs were too vivid to wear off immediately.

From "1984" by George Orwell