erode - use in sentences

Object

  • peat: We are working to restore 300 hectares of eroded peat, which is severely eroding.
  • sediment: Also, the deeper water in the trough would have allowed bottom currents to circulate, eroding the existing sediments in places.
  • coastline: The Holderness Coast is one of Europe's fastest eroding coastlines.
  • sovereignty: He specifically stated: There is no question of eroding any national sovereignty; there is no blueprint for a federal Europe.
  • liberty: Government by eroding civil liberties is the yellow brick road to dictatorship.

Subject

  • inflation: A gift of this nature is not eroded by inflation.
  • wind: Steep, rough and eroded by the wind, it imposes a hard vertical dance on a climber.
  • sea: To the east steep cliffs are actively eroded by the sea.

Modifying Another Word

  • steadily: Britain's right to protect itself has been steadily eroded.
  • badly: A badly eroded half of a figure statue lies beside the tombstone.
  • gradually: The Americans lead was gradually eroded further at 1,000 yards, where the Irish finished on 302 points for a total of 931.
  • severely: Your right to privacy has already been severely eroded.
  • systematically: At the same time Kashmir's ' special status ' had been systematically eroded.

Preposition: from

  • cliff: The beach here is made entirely of pebbles eroded from local cliffs.

Preposition: by

  • inflation: A gift of this nature is not eroded by inflation.
  • sea: To the east steep cliffs are actively eroded by the sea.
  • wind: Steep, rough and eroded by the wind, it imposes a hard vertical dance on a climber.

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