Sample sentences for CORROSION

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Definition

a state of deterioration — especially in metals

The bridge is painted each year to protect the steel from salt air corrosion.

the corrosion of American values
A solitary corroded coin.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

corroded = deteriorating

He unsnapped the corroding latches and opened it.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road

corroding = deteriorating — especially of metals

Papa's eyes started corroding.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

corroding = deteriorating

A suddenness found its way onto his lips then, which were a corroded brown color and peeling, like old paint.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

corroded = deteriorated

Or a murdered reality, unborn, killed by that corroding emotion without name—fear—need—dependence—hatred?
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Shells, gas clouds, and flotillas of tanks—shattering, corroding, death.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
Judging from their corroded shields and the smoking plumes on their helmets, they'd already learned about the basilisks' poison and fire.
Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
Reestablished in the corroded shell of Fairbanks 142, McCandless fell back into his routine of hunting and gathering.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
Advances in culture, no less than advances in science and industry, corrode the very society under whose aegis they are made possible.
Clement Greenberg -- Avant-garde and Kitsch
That was before it corroded to orange.
Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Hush
I felt even my soul had been corroded by salt.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
Native ferocity held one in subjection, while the corroding passion of revenge prevented the other from admitting any gentler feeling at the moment.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
The metal was corroded and the railings bent under pressure.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
The real Clarisse demanded, holding the other girl in her arms while the campers struggled to remove the poison-corroded helmet.
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
But fear, as I have said, was working strange changes in all of us, corroding our ability for clear thought.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
Nearby lay a corroded bronze dagger very much like her own.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
The decorative grille under the eaves had oxidized to a bile green, old corrosion ran down the brick like mascara, parallel to the drainpipes.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
It didn't seem to have been damaged by the fire or corroded by the bone-tar.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind

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