Sentence examples for has abraded from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, improved enforcement has abraded the quality of pills and coke to such an extent that they no longer glitter quite so temptingly.

A Mumbai-based expert claims that many Indians who work on construction sites have abraded, and therefore low-quality, fingerprints, which could exclude them from the proposed benefits.

"The patches would seem to have been caused by a rubbing action that occurred horizontally at the gum line and would have abraded the teeth," Lovell and Palichuk say.

Topsoils are thin and poor because the glaciers had abraded down to the bedrock.

The combined cycle uses only one working fluid, has a simple mechanical system and does not have abrading parts.

Also, the wear loss of the coating is only 0.01 g after it has been abraded for 60 min, which is only one fifth of that of the Cu alloy of the crystallizer.

Although monofilament line can be damaged by long exposure to sunlight and heat, it should serve the average fisherman at least two years, unless it has been abraded by rocks or by grooves in rod guides or the bearing on the pickup bail.

The dagger (Grave I) has been abraded on one end to form a smooth, rounded termination while the other end was bevelled to a point (Figure 5A).

"Those chemicals get abraded off and build up in household dust.

In the laboratory, plant viruses penetrate plant cells if the cell walls have been abraded with sandpaper or if cell protoplasts (plasma membrane, cytoplasm, and nucleus) are devoid of walls.

A former community organizer and housing advocate whose liberal bona fides have been abraded by an aura of coziness to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, she famously reversed her position on term limits, came too slowly to a passage of a bill to require paid sick leave, arguably conceded too much to business interests on the living wage.