How to Use erode in a Sentence

erode

verb

• Crashing waves have eroded the cliffs along the beach.
• The shoreline has eroded badly.
• The fastest way to erode that trust is to lie to your employees.
  — Jean Serra, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• But the accuracy of the term has eroded over the years.
  — Will Stone, NPR, 15 Apr. 2025
• If built, the new route would move about 1.7 miles of the railroad tracks off the edge of the tall, eroding seaside bluffs.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2024
• This process will slowly erode these cracks, causing the paths to change over time.
  — Alec Janis, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
• But over time, that began to erode and burnout increased, Singh said.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2021
• All that water was rushing down the backside of the brick and eroding away the mortar.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 31 May 2023
• The fresh salty crust will erode over time, park rangers said on Facebook, but rain will reset the process.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2021
• The team relies on him to be a strong two-way presence, but his game has eroded on both ends of the ice.
  — Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
• There is anxiety that AI could further erode the number of jobs in the field.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 16 June 2024
• Once a rock wears away enough to expose a fossil, the specimen starts to erode with it.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• Biggs said one of the first signs of a country's decline is when its boundaries start to erode.
  — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
• Ignoring the rules of the road puts us in peril and erodes the fabric of our society.
  — Jerald McNair, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2024
• Formed by the wind over millions of years, sand dunes grow and shape shift as grains of sand erode and accumulate.
  — Amelia Arvesen, Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2023
• Topsoil can erode due to strong winds, hard rains and flowing water.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2022
• With each tide, Abdus Satter watches the sea erode a little more of his life.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2021
• And yet removing any one of these features would, if just in a small way, erode the bookiness of a book.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2021
• Slowly, but surely, the importance of the sweeps began to erode.
  — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• New fire dangers put them at risk, and more frequent floods erode the big trees’ footing.
  — Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2024
• That said, at this point my competence is much eroded by time.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 May 2023
• And we should all be concerned by attempts to erode the right to due process and circumvent our judges and our court system.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 22 May 2025
• This can cause trauma and erode your mental health, Brognano says.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 19 Dec. 2022
• When reefs die, storms systems cut further inland and erode away coastal dwellings.
  — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2022
• These tiny bits eroded from larger rocks over millions of years.
  — Brian Darby, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• With climate change, rising seas are eroding Hawaii’s coast near homes with cesspools.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
• Some opponents of the plan feared the plan from Stimpson would erode the city’s Black majority.
  — al, 26 Aug. 2021
• Customer service breakdowns and miscues can’t help but erode the work of brand managers and CMOs.
  — Paul Talbot, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• In my view, the expansion of 287(g) will erode that trust and makes entire communities – not just immigrants – less safe.
  — W. Carsten Andresen, The Conversation, 29 May 2025
• In other words, the tariff ceasefire may be intact for now, but trust in its durability is rapidly eroding.
  — Catherine Baab, Quartz, 2 June 2025