Sentence examples for it wears away from inspiring English sources

If it wears away, arthritis sets in.

With age, it wears away nonetheless, allowing the softer, darker layers underneath to show through.

Falsely attributing agency to inanimate information by anthropomorphizing it wears away at belief in the role of individual agency in people's own communicative lives.

Witness their 2003 Berlin memorial to gay Holocaust victims, where, inside a bunker, a film of a kissing couple plays until it wears away.

With age, it wears away nonetheless, allowing the softer, darker layers… At 5 A.M. on a cool Boston morning not long ago, Elizabeth Rourke — thick black-brown hair, pale Irish skin, and forty-one weeks pregnant — reached over and woke….

"And the material has the same properties as enamel -- it wears away at the same rate, and it has the same thermal coefficient, so when you drink hot coffee it will expand just as much as the teeth around it".

Conservatives railed against the investigation, and Mr Rove was never charged in the case, but it wore away at his credibility.

To what degree would it wear away at a sense of the specialness of human being that is the necessary ground of love and obligation?

At first, these passages over the coral were uneventful, but the big bump became more ragged as it wore away, and I couldn't shake the memory of one ambulance that stalled, then jerked back and forth, jostling its poor passenger until the voice from within screamed "Oh, Jesus!

The insect repellent DEET keeps insects away, but it wears off with sweat and can cause health problems in sensitive people, including rashes, skin and mucous membrane irritation, dizziness, headaches, disorientation, and nausea.

Water is patient as it persistently wears away even the hardest granite mountain over millions of years, flushing away the rock's minerals downstream to the ocean.