Sentence examples for scoured off from inspiring English sources

After the crowds drifted away, the beaver's face was scoured off and the piece was all but forgotten.

The boulders that loom in the shallows of Point Judith, R.I., are debris from the last ice age, having been scoured off the underlying stone some 12,000 years ago, only to be scattered, like so much construction rubble, when the ice retreated from the mouth of Narragansett Bay.

The suspension was refluxed for 30 min. Fe3O4/OA nanoparticles were obtained after the excess oleic acid was scoured off with ethanol by the magnetic decantation.

Academia encourages backstabbing and, as a student or employee, you're not exactly the knife, but maybe the crud that gets scoured off the knife before the stabbing to prevent the spread of tetanus.

About 1 inch of asphalt was scoured off of a road in this area by the violent tornado.

The tornado then passed near Nanih Waiya State Park and moved into Kemper County, where pavement was scoured off of Stokes Road in multiple areas and deep gouge marks were observed in nearby fields.

Clare laves his big hands together, scouring off some residue of the call.

The problem, they argue, is that leaking water or steam would scour off pipe insulation, paint and other materials, forming debris that would clog the coolant pumps.

Eight years ago, the commission recognized the problem cited by the two groups: that in case of a major pipe break, the leaking water or steam would scour off pipe insulation and even paint.

If the plasma touches the wall, this can cool it to below reaction temperature and also scour off atoms of the lining material that poison the fusion reaction.

At a specified culture period, such as the 6th day, mycelia in the culture medium were collected by filtration and rinsed with pH 2 water (50 ml) to scour off the residual nutrients as well as nonionic surfactants.