Sentence examples for scoured away from inspiring English sources

The beaches could also be scoured away by erosion.

It scoured away the wet, soupy soil, depositing it no one is quite sure where.

Ahead we can see a mountain whose top has been scoured away by gold miners.

I probably wouldn't entirely give up on their butter chicken either way, but it will go down much easier once the scarlet letter has been scoured away.

The stumps of trees were revealed in 2014 when a storm scoured away the beach and shifted inland the shingle bank that protects the main road at Newgale.

Their charm has often been scoured away, aside from the odd glimmer, and they are a constant reminder of the endgame.

But nothing could scour away a burning disquiet.

Being broke, says Scorcher, "can scour away at a lifetime of mild, peaceful decency until all that's left is teeth and claws and terror".

This meant shutting down the machinery that weaves the wires into cables, scouring away all the accumulated grease, and forming the cable very slowly, to keep it from getting too hot.

Chekhov was also of the opinion that "only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things," and the Regents, by scouring away every expression of insensitivity except literary insensitivity, have indeed demonstrated their Chekhovian emancipation.

About the bad gamble that the Spains made on real estate, Scorcher says, "It can scour away at a lifetime of mild, peaceful decency until all that's left is teeth and claws and terror".