Sentence examples for gradually erode from inspiring English sources

The importance of certain secrets would gradually erode.

Signed in January 1973, it would gradually erode.

But like steady drops of water, they gradually erode granite.

To flourish among the bottom billion, Collier says, democracy must "gradually erode ethnic identities and replace them with a national identity".

They are putting in place a structure that will gradually erode Cato's independence and move it closer to the American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation".

When rainwater seeps into the ground, the acids in it gradually erode particular types of bedrock — limestone or sandstone, for example.

That gradually eroded.

That agreement has gradually eroded.

Public approval of the war effort gradually eroded.

His popular support gradually eroded, however, as manpower losses mounted on the Russian front.

Water builds up in the rock, which gradually erodes it until it collapses.