Sample Sentences for
corrosion
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    He unsnapped the corroding latches and opened it.  (source)
    corroding = deteriorating -- especially of metals
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    It has a dry, clear and virtually smog-free climate that helps minimize corrosion.†  (source)
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    "She will shine," said Leopolda, "when we have burned off the dark corrosion."†  (source)
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    Reestablished in the corroded shell of Fairbanks 142, McCandless fell back into his routine of hunting and gathering.†  (source)
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    They started up the steps, which were gold streaked with the black of ash and corrosion.†  (source)
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    I flashed a smile to keep the honesty of the statement from corroding the remainder of my heart.†  (source)
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    However, the ground wire couldn't be sunk too deep, either, because the clay layer had a strong corrosive effect, and after a while, it would corrode the middle section of the ground wire.†  (source)
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    By themselves, the cyberdisruptions would have been temporarily crippling, but combined with a crumbling New York infrastructure where aging pipes, long corroded by seawater, burst when they froze up from the water stoppage and cold temperatures, and the heavy snow and ice that had downed power and telephone lines and blocked roads—all together it had created a deadly trap that killed tens of thousands of people.†  (source)
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    Next to that was a dented bronze breastplate pitted with corrosion —acid, maybe?†  (source)
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    To some small degree he did succeed in further corroding Ayemenem's view of working wives.†  (source)
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    If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.†  (source)
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    And was it really true that she carried a little golden nugget inside her—a jewel that cannot be corroded by time, a soul that would live on when her own body grew old and died?†  (source)
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    The valves were made of titanium because they had to function reliably after prolonged exposure to high temperature, and also because titanium was very corrosion-resistant—high-temperature water was murderously corrosive.†  (source)
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