Sample sentences for ATTRITION

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Definition

gradual loss or weakening — especially loss of people such as in a war

a war of attrition

The company is reducing the number of employees through normal attrition rather than through layoffs.
John's river, some quartz crystals with their edges blunted from attrition, and mixed with gravel on the sea-beach.
Darwin, Charles -- The Voyage of the Beagle
Attrition was their wisdom.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Now we are in a war of attrition.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
Given our rate of attrition, we hadn't much reason to take the chance of being forgiven.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
Plan Number Six: Wage a War of Attrition.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
Gradually, attrition thinned the ranks.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
The band suffered a lot of attrition but somehow they always kept it going.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
On that night he took to the hills and began his long patient war of attrition against the man I was in danger of becoming.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
And right here the attrition began.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
He hopes to drag out this fight, to bleed us dry through slow attrition.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
Whether it was attrition of other people, or whatever.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
The surprise of the attrition rate is that only a fraction of the ill-fated planes were lost in combat.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
But China is a vast country, and despite millions of casualties, Japan's war became a debilitating war of attrition.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
That's where the heaviest attrition is.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
He'd had good experiences with almost all of them, though in his business there was an above-average rate of attrition and turnover.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
This was a battle of attrition.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
Attrition ran 70 percent in early years—but those who lived were nice people.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Cedric knows such issues of racial attrition are subjects of debate on campus, and he looks intently at the professor, letting the silence hang, hoping for a break.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen

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