Sentence examples for was worn away from inspiring English sources

Mr. Carabajo's backside was worn away, and parts of his clothing were missing.

The last land link between Britain and France was worn away by storms after the last Ice Age.

I saw that the beige carpet was worn away — not discolored or faded but just worked through by the ceaseless back-and-forth of my desk chair.

As this was Scotland, a place of strong dialects that some now argue amount to a separate language, vocabulary as well as accent was worn away.

There he made a friend in Norris Getty, who remembered Kees as a ferocious editor — "a good deal of pencil lead was worn away".

Blocks were missing on the exterior, and one side of the main arch was worn away almost to a skeleton, as though two or three centuries of wild north-east weather had blown through it.

When he was 11 he came down with a rare disease that was wearing away at his knee cartilage, and he switched from sports to the stage.

What do you see when a carpet is worn away?

The porcelain had been worn away and was black".

These men have been worn away, like a weathered poster.

"But when all this is worn away – there'll be that to excavate".