wearing away
Example Sentences
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Debbie says the pain resulted from the knee implant slipping from the tibia and wearing away the bone.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2025
Surgery to repair the meniscus revealed that cartilage was wearing away.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
Because it wasn’t a single epidemic, it was even harder to fight—it just steadily popped up, year after year, wearing away at the population.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2021
Southern in context, universal in nature, the main body of his work speaks of life, aging, wearing away.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2015
They camped in the Green Hills, and on September the twenty-second they rode gently down into the beginning of the trees as afternoon was wearing away.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
