Sentence examples for found abrasive from inspiring English sources
"Some of his advisers thought I shouldn't be nominated because of remarks the administration found abrasive.
A Commitment to Dialogue As a law professor at the University of Chicago, Mr. Obama taught a young woman named Uzma Sattar, who was unpopular in class, students said, because of comments she made that others frequently found abrasive.
His defensive partner, Damien Delaney, has become a stalwart at this club, a player whom some managers might find abrasive but whose whole-hearted commitment can rarely be doubted.
Mirchev told me that he found Smulian abrasive and "very satisfied with himself".
We found that abrasive wear of the tool steel surface could be decreased by adapting the phase composition in the Al-base coating.
Over the years, meanwhile, Mr. Adams developed a passion for preservation that some find abrasive.
With an accent that slides into grating affectation and a body that doesn't shy from flaunting itself in unflattering ways, Ms. Ivey finds an abrasive vulgarity in Carlotta without erasing the necessary flickers of dignity and intelligence.
First thing I'd say is that I didn't find him abrasive in the kind of caricatured way I'd often read about — and braced myself for, really, with excited anticipation.
He was put in place by Colin Cowdrey, the MCC president, and other senior figures serving both bodies, to find less abrasive solutions, the club being on the verge of its double centenary, and £3.5m committed to new stands and press box.
But those who challenge the secretary must be prepared for withering cross-examination in a style that some, especially military commanders who are used to a more respectful hearing, find so abrasive that one senior officer has dubbed it "the wire brush treatment".
