How to Use erode in a Sentence

erode

verb

• Crashing waves have eroded the cliffs along the beach.
• The shoreline has eroded badly.
• All that water was rushing down the backside of the brick and eroding away the mortar.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 31 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• In concert with the river eroding from one side, spring water weakened it from the other.
  — Cassidy Randall, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2024
• The storm eroded many of the dunes on the Isle of Palms, leaving crews scrambling to smooth out large drop-offs on beach access paths ahead of Labor Day weekend.
  — Rebecca Blackwell and Laura Bargfeld, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
• His actions against the Magic don’t erode Kerr’s confidence in Green going forward, the coach said.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
• Nature has also served as a willing partner, as the sea erodes the cliffs and reveals new fossils.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
• The high pressure responsible for the ongoing heat wave across the South will erode as the severe storms shift eastward.
  — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 1 July 2023
• Back in 1905, tides were eroding the coastal land in Coronado.
  — U-T Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2024
• Meanwhile, the home-field advantage that Ukraine enjoyed in the early days of the invasion has eroded.
  — Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
• Critics say the legislation will erode the system of checks and balances.
  — Isabel Debre, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
• And nearby bluffs that would normally erode have been fortified to protect homes and railroad tracks built on top of them.
  — Jill Cowan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
• What worries Hatch, of UMass Amherst, is how quickly things can go wrong when extreme rainfall causes an earthen dam to start to erode.
  — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• But that will likely further erode building owners’ bottom line, and the values of the buildings themselves.
  — Catherine Carlock, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• The new plane could erode Boeing and Airbus’s dominance in aviation, at least in the Chinese market.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• His two-year struggle to command and trust his fastball has done nothing but steadily erode his value, though.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
• Any behavior that erodes our Sailors’ trust has no place in the organization.
  — Christina Fuoco-Karasinski, Peoplemag, 25 May 2023
• Since then, a decline in U.S. jobs and eroding union power has made a career in the auto industry far less stable.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 13 Oct. 2023
• But the fall of the crypto exchange FTX, the crypto bank Silvergate, and other entities has eroded that faith.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 15 May 2023
• The bill threatened to erode the legal firewall between the two territories.
  — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
• High inflation has eroded a lot of those gains, with the Consumer Price Index showing costs rising by 17.7% over that time.
  — Brian Cheung, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The bright-white marlstone has been slowly eroded, creating a sloping staircase that leads right into the sea.
  — Lila Battis, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
• Meanwhile, the hardened stance of Palestinians has eroded Israeli support for a two-state solution in the past decade.
  — The Editors, National Review, 15 Mar. 2024
• Here, even seemingly small changes to sea levels — a few millimeters per year — can waterlog coasts and erode the shores.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 May 2023
• They are fed up with monied outsiders streaming into the state and blame them for driving up prices, taking land and eroding Montana’s rugged culture.
  — Paul Overberg, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023
• Wind and rain have eroded the original deposit into Seussian spires and box canyons, leaving what looks like a drip castle rising from the bush.
  — Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024