CORRODE in a Sentence
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10 example sentences for CORRODE, such as:
1. Engineers found the structure had been corroded by moisture.
2. Suffering was easier to bear than the bitterness he felt corroding his spirit.
3. He has devised a process for making gold wires which neither corrode nor oxidise.
4. The girders supporting the bridge will corrode so gradually that no one suspects any danger in future 10 years.
2. Suffering was easier to bear than the bitterness he felt corroding his spirit.
3. He has devised a process for making gold wires which neither corrode nor oxidise.
4. The girders supporting the bridge will corrode so gradually that no one suspects any danger in future 10 years.
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Meanings and Examples of CORRODE
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corrode
v. become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid
v. cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
Classic Sentence:
1 Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
2 She alternately considered ways of leaving Kennicott, and remembered his virtues, pitied his bewilderment in face of the subtle corroding sicknesses which he could not dose nor cut out.
3 In the middle of it rose two great stones, worn and sharpened at the upper end until they looked like the huge corroding fangs of some monstrous beast.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
Context Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
4 Only ragged vestiges of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away from the corroded metallic framework.
5 Here I was more in my element, for rising on either side of me were the huge bulks of big machines, all greatly corroded and many broken down, but some still fairly complete.
6 It so chanced that almost upon first cutting into him with the spade, the entire length of a corroded harpoon was found imbedded in his flesh, on the lower part of the bunch before described.
Example Sentence:
1 The girders supporting the bridge will corrode so gradually that no one suspects any danger in future 10 years.
2 He has devised a process for making gold wires which neither corrode nor oxidise.
3 Suffering was easier to bear than the bitterness he felt corroding his spirit.
4 Engineers found the structure had been corroded by moisture.