Sample sentences for CORROSIVE

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Definition

damaging or harmful — such as when describing a strong acid or bad behavior

or (more rarely):

something causing damage or harm — such as a strong acid

Much more rarely, corrosive can describe a hurtful sarcasm or personality.

Titanium is resistant to the corrosive effect.

corrosive = damaging (in this case through chemical reaction)

In her rebuttal, she wrote about corrosive effects of post-modern philosophy.

corrosive = harmful

Be careful. It is a corrosive.

corrosive = something that can cause damage — such as a strong acid

Magnesium slows the corrosive effects of salt water on the iron.

corrosive = causing damage

Disappointment was as dark and corrosive in her as the Black Thing.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

corrosive = damaging or harmful

The corrosive spray that hit his face seared into his lungs and eyes, blinding him.
Gary Paulsen -- Hatchet

corrosive = harmful chemical

Aylmer snatched the metallic plate and threw it into a jar of corrosive acid.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories
The penetrating power of his mind, acting like a corrosive fluid, had destroyed his ambition...
Conrad, Joseph -- Amy Foster
The calling of a man's self to a strict account, is a medicine, sometime too piercing and corrosive.
Bacon, Sir Francis -- The Essays
Viaburi, the house-boy, brought him corrosive sublimate and water, and he took a thorough antiseptic wash.
London, Jack -- Adventure
Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
My mouth filled with liquid, bile and blood from biting my tongue, salty and corrosive and sweet.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
Martyrdom is sublimation, corrosive sublimation.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
She stopped suddenly as doubt struck her with vicious and corrosive force.
Stephen King -- Carrie
It's a corrosive gas, like fluorine, which is used to etch glass.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
Mami's letters, as regular as the months themselves, were corrosive slaps in the face.
Junot Diaz -- Drown
It is sticking here in the pit of my stomach, eating into me like a corrosive acid.
Henrik Ibsen -- An Enemy of the People
Good old reliable H2SO4, an oily, colorless, corrosive liquid used in dyes, paints, explosives, and many chemical experiments.
Rodman Philbrick -- Freak the Mighty
I imagined she would have already hosed us down with acid if she weren't worried about the long-term effects of corrosives on her larvae.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
She's responsible for plagues, sickness, and catastrophes; she's immune to fire, radiation, toxins, corrosives, disease, and aging.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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