Sample Sentences forattrition (editor-reviewed)
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The company is reducing the number of employees through normal attrition rather than through layoffs.attrition = gradual loss
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The long conflict became a war of attrition, with both sides slowly wearing each other down.
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Several times the enemy was able to trick him into exposing more weakness than he meant to; other times the enemy was able to wear him down by attrition until his victory was as much a matter of luck as strategy. (source)attrition = gradual loss or weakening -- especially loss of people, as in a war
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—we were "winning a war of attrition."† (source)
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Given our rate of attrition, we hadn't much reason to take the chance of being forgiven.† (source)
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The surprise of the attrition rate is that only a fraction of the ill-fated planes were lost in combat.† (source)
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Now we are in a war of attrition.† (source)
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Adam had attempted Sniper School once before, in 2002 when both eyes were functioning, but had failed the attritional "stalking" portion of the course (as did nearly half his class), which drove him even harder to complete the three-month course now.† (source)
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But the incidents of his adventure grew sensibly sharper and clearer under the attrition of thinking them over, and so he presently found himself leaning to the impression that the thing might not have been a dream, after all.† (source)
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Attrition ran 70 percent in early years—but those who lived were nice people.† (source)
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Each day was a small victory in our war of attrition.† (source)
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Reach the Coast every time, zero attrition rate, not a scratch on them.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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That's where the heaviest attrition is.† (source)
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I think it was one of his major disappointments in me that I couldn't repeat myself, not a single time; for unbeknownst to Farrell, and only partly apparent to me, the McGraw-Hill syndrome of despair and attrition had set in.† (source)
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If the man means business, enough to devote a lifetime to it, you have only three choices: to settle, to murder, or to commit yourself to a tedious and unendable war of attrition.† (source)
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